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Aaaaaaa-tention!
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Maker: Jose, Ellen
In 1992 Ellen Jose (b.1951) held an exhibition in Melbourne titled "Black Diggers-Ghost Fighters" to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the beginning of the Kokoda campaign in New Guinea, as well as ...ART29762
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Able Seaman, Torpedoes
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of an unidentified Able Seaman from the Royal Australian Navy.ART23554
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Artillery surveyors
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Artillery surveyors at the beginning of the traverse. The computor (seated) with binoculars and bandolier takes down the readings as the instrument man gives them. This sketch is a reconstruction of a...ART26097
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A united 'fighting mad' Australia can never be enslaved
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Maker: Northfield, James Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
A Second World War Australian poster depicting a European man pulling a rickshaw, in which a Japanese man is sitting, past the Flinders Street Railway Station in Melbourne. A Japanese flag flies abov...ARTV09053
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AWAS entering a light tank
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a member of the Australian Women's Army Service, 1 Australian Base Ordnance Depot, entering a light tank during the Second World War.ART21341
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Barbed wire entanglements
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Barbed wire entanglements along a beach in Melbourne. Edward Albert Douglas Watson born 1920, served as an official war artist in Australia, New Guinea and Borneo from 1943 to 1946. He became the youn...ART22195
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Cleaning No.2 gun, Middle Park, Melbourne
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Shows camouflaged entrances to guns 2 and 3. Melbourne's skyline as a background, with Government House and The Shrine of Remembrance predominating. Middle Park, unidentified soldier cleaning 3.7 inch...ART26082
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Coastal defence gun
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Artillerymen from the Australian Military Forces crew a 6 inch naval gun on the coast in Darwin. The gun is one that was manufactured before 1914 and is probably off one of the First World War ships, ...ART22186
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Cover design for 'Angry Penguins'
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
This drawing shows Tucker's concern about the licentious behaviour in the blacked-out streets of Melbourne in wartime. The drunken figure of a digger sprawls with the sole of his foot outwards, and hi...ART28283
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Exhibition of Japanese submarine, Melbourne
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Part of the captured Japanese midget submarines raid on Sydney Harbour and that was on public display at Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne, now on display at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. The subm...ART25911
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Finis
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
1945-6; sketch for tailpiece of book, showing chained man bursting links of chain.ART28404.009
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Flight Lieutenant M Baker
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Flight Lieutenant M Baker (possibly 406127), wearing flying jacket, helmet and gogglesART28346
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Flight Lieutenant M Baker
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Portrait depicts Flight Lieutenant M Baker, RAAF, wearing flying helmet, goggles and jacket, aircraft in background.ART28348
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Garnishing colouration, the point machine
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Maker: Bush, Charles
The paint machine shown here was used for painting camouflage garnishing rolls any colour. The rolls were placed in a bath of paint behind the reels of rusty wire netting on the left, fed through a m...ART23624
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Gunner carrying drag rope
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Study for "gun maintenance". Picture of unidentified gunner with a drag rope over his shoulder.ART23245
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HMAS Australia at Dakar
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Dakar, French West Africa; HMAS Australia; HMAS Australia, seen from an unidentified British destroyer, in action against shore batteries at DakarART23583
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HMAS Manoora sinking merchant vessel Romolo
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Two days after Italy entered the war, Australia struck her first blow against the new enemy on the high seas. On that day the armed Merchant Cruiser HMAS "Manoora" intercepted the Italian merchant ves...ART22328
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Kario Sendanoz, Javanese seaman
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a portrait of Kario Sendanoz, Javanese seaman. In 1942, Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a gunner to the artillery unit near Albury. In 1945, Friend was selected for appoint...ART23209
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Lieutenant Alan Moore
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicting a portrait of Lieutenant Alan Moore, artist, Official War Art Scheme.ART22564