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Knocking off time at an aerodrome, Bankstown
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Maker: Dobell, William
A group of men from the Civil Construction Corps leaving the airfield in Bankstown. Some of them are travelling in a truck, others are on foot or are riding bicycles. Dobell has captured the mass move...ART30247
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Koepang Bay
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Maker: Thake, Eric
View of Koepang Bay from a Consolidated Catalina flying boat from Royal Australian Air Force, No 43 Squadron; on the day after Japanese in Timor had surrendered. Vessels conveying Australian occupati...ART26791
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Koepang Street, Timor
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Koepang, in Dutch Timor, was the scene of the first landing by Australian troops in the occupation of the island in December 1941. In September 1945 it was the scene of the sighing of the Surrender In...ART26336
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Kokoda trail
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Representing troops of 25th Australian Infantry Brigade crossing a creek along the Kokoda Trail. This picture was intended to represent a patrol pushing along a side track, but it is typical of any fo...ART24074
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Kure, Japan
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Wreckage in the Kure shipyards, Japan. On his visit to Japan in 1947, Albert Tucker documented in a series of works on paper, the result of Allied bombing raids.ART28471
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Lake Tiberias
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts three Australian troops consulting a map with the stunning vista of Lake Tiberius (Sea of Galilee) as a backdrop. Herbert was appointed as an Official War Artist in February 1941, and served ...ART30089
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Land Army girls on cotton
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Maker: Taylor, Grace
Depicts several Australian Women's Land Army members in the field picking cotton by hand. As a member of the Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA), Grace Taylor was stationed at Biloela, Queensland, whe...ART29759
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Landing barge, troops and stores
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
The drawing depicts Australian troops landing at Papua New Guinea in 1942/3. In the foreground, Australian soldiers in uniform mill around barrels of supplies, while further back more Australian soldi...ART21216
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Last tram for Doomben
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Maker: Simon, Sidney
Troops sitting, standing and attempting to get onto a very crowded tram.ART29394
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Lathe, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
2 Australian Imperial Force; lathe made from salvaged materials, set in heavy wooden bedART26523
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Launching the Sunderland
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
Air Force, Coastal Command ground crew launch a Short Sunderland flying boat by holding onto the tail of the aircraft as it goes into the Plymouth harbour.ART25528
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LCM K23 on its way to the beach
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Pedro Bay; Landing Craft Mechanised K23; LCM with motor vehicles and guns going ashore, HMAS Kanimbla and another unidentified ship in backgroound; campaignART24196
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LCS control boat from HMAS Westralia off the beach
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Showing the Control Boat from HMAS "Westralia" controlling the Landing Craft (Support) off the beach at Lingayen Gulf. "Westralia" is the former interstate liner now an Assault Troop Carrier, Luzon, P...ART24204
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Leading Aircraftman Arthur Adams
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of Leading Aircraftman Arthur Hope Adams, Q127611, RAAF in Britain.ART22359
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Lend strength to Australia!
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Maker: Unknown Department of Treasury Unknown
A hand turning a spanner around a nut, which forms the letter 'o' in the word 'loan'. The entire text on the work reads 'Lend strength to Australia! Eleventh Security Loan'.ARTV04463
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Let 'em have it!
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Maker: Unknown Department of Information Unknown
Depicts the heroic figure of a soldier in monochromatic shades of red, holding a hand grenade in his right hand, and preparing to throw it at the enemy. His body is twisted like a spring, and he is s...ARTV04418
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Lewis gun attached to 14 Australian Anti-aircraft Battery, Darwin (Gunner Tommy Hill and Gunner Neil Cook)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Anti-aircraft defences of the 14th Anti-Aircaft Battery, gunners Thomas Hill (left) and Neil Cook operating a Lewis machine gun in a sandbagged gun pit.ART22720
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Liberated Indians, Rabaul
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Maker: Herman, Sali
'Soon after our landing at Rabaul we liberated our allied prisoners. Of these there were a great number of Indians who were in a state of misery and starvation, some mere skeletons with big staring ey...ART22840
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Liberator's face
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Maker: Thake, Eric
Thake's view of a Consolidated B24 Liberator aircraft in Darwin, seeing the machine as some sort of crouching giant insect. Eric Thake was one of three artists appointed by the RAAF Historical Section...ART26970
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Liberte, liberte cherie, conduis, soutiens nosbras vengeurs (Liberty, liberty beloved, lead, support our armed avengers)
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Maker: Carlu, Natacha Free French Press and Information Service Unknown
American poster issued at the time of the Second World War advocating for the Freedom of the French Press. The poster depicts the head of the Statue of Liberty behind Marianne, the symbol of the Frenc...ARTV01251
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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
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Anderson
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Maker: Godson, John Barclay
Depicts a portrait of NX12595 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson, VC, MC. Served during the 1914-18 War with British forces in East Africa against German led Askari, and was awarded the...ART31764
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Lieutenant Commander Leon Goldsworthy
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Lieutenant Commander Leon Verdi Goldsworthy, GC, DSC, GM. A mining engineer from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Goldsworthy's initial attempt to enlist in the navy was thwarted by his small stature. Hi...ART27503
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Lieutenant Don Brown and Sergeant John Ash
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts Lieutenant D.N.B Brown and Sergeant J. Ash. Lieutenant D.N.B Brown, section commander of Anti-Aircraft, Light Machine Gun Section, 14th Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery who were defending the ...ART22722
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Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir Edmund Herring
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicting a portrait of Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Francis Herring, KBE, DSO, MC, ED, MA, DCL (Oxon), KC, General Commanding 1st Australian Corps. This portrait by Dargie won the 1945 Archibald Pr...ART22563
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Life on Slater's Knoll
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Showing Slater's Knoll a week after the Japanese attack on the morning of 5 April 1945. The front had now been pushed forward and life was quiet again on Slater's Knoll; the 25th Australian Infantry B...ART23875
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Lightnings on Nadzab Airstrip
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a United States aircraft, on the Nadzap Airstrip in New Guinea.ART25734
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Listening to Music, Y.M.C.A. Hut, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
The YMCA representatives, Mr Ivor Hanger and Mr George Macheily, built this hut of palms logs and attap for recreational purposes and lectures. They were taken prisoners-of-war by the Japanese along w...ART26510
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Little boy lost
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Maker: Fleming, Ian
A young boy, the lone survivor of a bombing raid, stands forlorn beside the bodies of victims crushed by falling debris. Surrounded by the smoking ruins of homes, he stands with his mouth agape, clutc...ART29192
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Living Skeleton
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Drawn at the Japanese Naval Headquarters Hospital, Buka Passage. One of the many Japanese who died through lack of skilled medical attention and neglect.ART25262
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Load, 4" gun, HMAS Wagga
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The 4 inch gun crew on HMAS Wagga (unidentified). The shells are being brought to the gun first from the ready-use lockers on deck and when these are exhausted are lifted from the ammunition hoist whi...ART24425
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Loading kauri logs on jinker, Kirrima Range
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Loading Kauri logs into jinker for transport to Kennedy Mill and production into war material, Kirrima Range, North Queensland.ART25603
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Loading shells
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Scene from the top of "X" turret of the crew transferring shells from Ammunition Ship HMAS Poyang to HMAS Shropshire, Royal Australian Navy, Aitape, New Guinea.ART21099
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Loading the L.S.T., Morotai
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Maker: Friend, Donald
loading Landing Ship Tank (LST) with suppliesART23323
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London leave
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
A rainy day in London during the Second World War. A bus looms large in the wetness; a grouping of three women wearing high heels stand at the left and two men in Airforce uniform can be seen walking ...ART25523
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London schoolgirls at Finnemore Wood Camp
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Maker: Gabain, Ethel
This was one of the 31 camps which had been specially built in the country and was housing schools from the evacuation areas. At the time there where about 6,000 children in the camp. "Evacuation" had...ART29715
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Long winding trail
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Maker: Jose, Ellen
In keeping with Ellen Jose's tendency to combine exploration of the personal with wider external issues, 'Long winding trail' is both an intimate homage to her father and his soldier persona, and a re...ART29763
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Looking towards home
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Weary Australian prisoners of war, after climbing to the top of a water tower in Changi POW Camp, gaze across the seas around Singapore towards home. View to south-east from top of water tower at Chan...ART24470
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Main Street, Brunei
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts a view of Brunei, the remains of wrecked buildings caused by naval gunfire and aerial bombing in main shopping street of Brunei when Australian troops occupied the town. Douglas Watson joined...ART22994
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Main yeast distribution centre, Selerang
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
The yeast, at this time, was given as a small issue to everyone to help in the battle against malnutrition. Later, only the sick received it. It was made from rice polishings, sweet potatoes, sugar an...ART26506
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Major-General Wootten's quarters
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Maker: Friend, Donald
9th Australian Infantry Division; campaign; house used as headquarters by Major- General G F Wootton, CBE, DSO, General Commanding 9th Australian DivisionART23252
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Making camp, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a group of unidentified soldiers unloading trucks to establish camp.ART23226
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Making rice cakes, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men of 2/29th Battalion kitchen unit making rice cakes. Rice was provided by the Japanese and was a staple of the prisoners diet.ART25071
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Making smoke, HMAS Quiberon
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Destroyers making smokescreen, exercises and manouevres; unidentified destroyer making smoke as part of an exercise during a sweep of the, part of HMAS Quiberon in foreground.ART24181
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Making the Strip
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Unidentified personnel from the No 62 Works Supply Unit of the Royal Australian Air force are using earthmoving equipment, such as tractors, to build an airfield.ART23302
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Malaria Control, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men spraying to control mosquitoes. He is using a 'Rega' knapsack sprayer and is covering pools with malaria oil to kill the mosquito larvae. His relief stands by. Malaria was a major problem for the ...ART25086
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Malay boy in the native compound
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a portrait of unidentified Malay refugee, used as slaves, Labuan, North Borneo.ART23307
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Malays in native compound
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Maker: Friend, Donald
These Malays were amongst those shipped to Borneo from Java by the Japanese as slaves. They were shown in a compound in which they were congregated after deliverance from the Japanese.ART23249
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Malay type : John Timbang
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Maker: Friend, Donald
2/3rd Anti-Aircraft Regiment; John Timbang, Malay rouseabout with 2/3 AA Bty, formerly forced labourer for JapaneseART23316
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Marine section, Point Cook
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Marine Section of Point Cook Air Station in morning light. This section is used for air-sea rescue work.ART21823
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Massage room, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing machine made for exercising the feet of beri beri patients - on side gave a weight against a pull upwards, the other a weight against the pressure downwards. In the background is an 'exercise'...ART26504
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Matuhi Volcano, Rabaul
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
At the end of Laksunai airstrip is Matuhi volcanoe. In the foreground is a wrecked Japanese aircraft and a small group of men.ART25264
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Mechanisation means war on wheels
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Maker: General Motors Holden
This Australian Second World War poster was created by General Motors Holden (GMH), likely for display in one of their Australian factories. The poster is designed to promote the production of the new...ARTV02152
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Memorial windows All Saints' Church, Collingwood
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Depicts two drawings related to the All Saints' Church, in Collingwood, Ontario memorial windows. The windows, (upper image) depict on l: Saint Michael, and on r: Saint George, dedicated to Leading Ai...ART25496
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Mempakul
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Maker: Flett, James
Showing an Australian camp on the beach on the mainland of North West Borneo. It was on this beach that a force from 24th Australian Infantry Battalion made an un-opposed landing on 12th June 1945.ART25883
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[Men resting]
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Maker: Richmond, Oliffe
This drawing depicts a group of nine men sitting and leaning along a narrow deck space on a ship.ART28339.003
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Mess deck life on a Corvette
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
This drawing is timed at 1600 hours - 4 pm - teatime, when the matelot "wets the leaves" and the day's deck work is over. Hammocks may then be slung and those off watch can get their heads down for an...ART22774
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Mess deck of HMAS Nepal, 7th Destroyer Flotilla
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Showing four unidentified sailors, of the crew HMAS Nepal, in the confined space of their living quarters. One is ironing a shirt, one sewing on a button, one is "flaked out", or relaxed, on a form, w...ART22776
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Mess hall
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Heads of two soldiers in the Mess Hall of the Army Camp, Wangaratta, Victoria. Albert Tucker was drafted on 14 April 1942 and sent to Wangaratta training camp, where he worked sketching medical diagra...ART29699
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Mess Kitchen 454 Squadron, Falconara
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Showing the improvised cooking facilities in camp kitchen and the challenges faced by cooks of No.454 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, working in the Italian winter.ART24347
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Middle Head garrison
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
An encampment for men of the Fortress and Coastal Defence Units. Tents and the site of 6 inch gun can be seen in the foreground, Middle Head Garrison is visible in the distance.ART23662
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Mid winter - 40 below
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Early mornings at extreme temperatures produce interesting results. Warm air from the warmed buildings causes steam on contract with the cold air and the rising sun tints this to a rosy pink, with the...ART22812
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Military gaol, Alice Springs
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Maker: Thake, Eric
Military gaol in Alice Springs, with only the faint outline of a prisoner on the right, behind the wire. Thake's work concentrates on the Mulga tree posts, barbed wire and the red sand of the desert.ART26969
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Milk for the mess
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
Australian servicemen carrying an urn of milk from a dairy, while civilians watch on. The artist lived in one of the farm houses while undertaking commission as an official war artist during the Secon...ART26241
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Milne Bay concert party, New Guinea
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Official war artist Roy Hodgkinson has captured a moment of revelry amongst Australian Military Forces at a New Guinea Concert Party. Aimed at boosting morale for service personnel, this concert party...ART22737
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Mister, here's your hat! Join the A.I.F now!
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Maker: James, Richard Haughton Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster by R.H James. One of a series titled "JOIN THE AIF" this poster is subtitled " Mister, here's your hat!" . It features a bla...ARTV06443
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Mobile Printers
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Depicts the 1 Australian Army Mobile Printing Unit which was formed in 1942 to operate with Headquarters 1st Australian Army. Its function, in accordance with Field Service Regulations, to print order...ART22861
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Mobile workshop
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Maker: Thake, Eric
No 26 Repair and Salvage Unit; general view of mobile workshop operated by 26 RSU, RAAF.ART90134
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Model maker, HMAS Hobart
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
ship model; HMAS; naval officer (unidentified) with model warship (cruiser)ART25680
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Morning, 8 May 1945
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicts a newsboy selling morning papers on Prince's Bridge Railway Station corner. Papers announced Germany's surrender.ART26061
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Mosques and minarets, Damascus
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts mosques in Damascus, after the city was taken from the Vichy French by Allied forces. The Battle of Damascus was the final conflict in the Syria-Lebanon campaign, and ended on the 21 June 19...ART30298
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Mosquito net
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Maker: Friend, Donald
unidentified male nude sleeping under a mosquito netART23278
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Mosquito on the tarmac
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Viewed from above, Adams depicts a de Havilland Mosquito aircraft standing on the tarmac, painted in RAF camouflage scheme.ART23474
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Mount Carmel Road
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a panoramic view from Mount Carmel Road. In the distant harbour (probably Port Haifa, now in Israel) freighters and oil tankers can be seen at the moorings. The main shipping wharf is on the...ART30065
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Mount Painter mining camp
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Maker: Ragless, Max
The view from the entrance of the Mount Painter uranium mine. This mine, in the Flinders Ranges, was the first known uranium deposit in Australia and it was the first target of intensive exploration ...ART23422
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Moving through artillery smoke, Bobdubi Ridge
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Men of the 58th/59th Australian Infantry Battalion, supported by accurate artillery fire form Australian batteries around Tambu Bay, are seen attacking Japanese positions known as Old Vickers Position...ART22555
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Moving through jungle towards Namling Ridge
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Hele depicts Australian soldiers moving through the jungle at Bobdubi Ridge towards Namling Ridge, Salamaua, New Guinea.ART23820
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Moving up onto Namling Ridge
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Namling Ridge; 2/3 Australian Independent Company; Namling Ridge, areaART22554
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Mughar Village
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts five soldiers outside of the town of Mughar, Palestine. Three of the soldiers in the foreground are standing under pencil pines sketching, while two in he middle ground are simply looking. T...ART30040
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Munitions workers, Maribyrnong
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Maker: Vassilieff, Danila
Depicts a group of unidentified women sitting either side of work bench in Commonwealth Explosives factory, Maribyrnong, Melbourne.ART28101
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Munition workers
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Male and female munition workers stepping forward together striving for agreed goals.ART40926
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Mural of Australian military aircraft, early 1939-1945 period
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
Mural of Australian military aircraft, early 1939-1945 period. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records...ART27777.002
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Mural of Australian military aircraft, late 1939-1945 period
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
Mural of Australian militery aircraft, late 1939-1945 period. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records ...ART27777.003
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Murray Griffin
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Portrait of official war artist Murray Griffin in uniform. Griffin was the first member of the Contemporary Art Society to be appointed an official war artist. In November 1941 he arrived in Singapore...ART22926
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N'achetez que le necessaire (Don't buy it unless it is necessary)
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Maker: McLaren Information Service, Ministry of National War Services Unknown
Second World War thrift poster depicting a man and a woman looking at a white elephant which is for sale: 'buy only what is necessary'.ARTV05260
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Nail making, Changi: cutting and pointing
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Improvised machine for nail making, cutting and pointing wire. The prisoners in Changi established a workshop within the camp to produce most items, such as shoes, artificial limbs, cooking equipment,...ART25058
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Nail making, Changi: forming the heads
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men using small vices flattening and embossing heads on nails. The prisoners in Changi established a workshop within the camp to produce most items, such as shoes, artificial limbs, cooking equipment,...ART25057
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Nail making, Changi: stretching wire
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Improvised machine for stretching wire to make nails. The prisoners in Changi established a workshop within the camp to produce most items, such as shoes, artificial limbs, cooking equipment, needed b...ART25056
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Natives carrying wounded
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Maker: Herman, Sali
This work was painted in the studio from sketches made in either Bougainville or New Britain. The painting possesses a powerful and dramatic sense of movement. The viewer is drawn into the picture a...ART22885
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Natives carrying wounded soldier
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depictd a group of unidentified natives carrying wounded soldier on improvised stretcher through jungle, Aitape, New Guinea.ART26133
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Naval patrol boat
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Maker: Norton, Frank
This work depicts one of the naval auxiliary patrol boats at Whyalla. The vessel formerly belonged to Adelaide. Behind the vessel is a 150-ton fitting-out crane in the course of erection.ART21779
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Navy Inspectress (Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Drawing made from a sketch, two Naval personnel inspect items in the TNT bay for quality control at the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong for quality control.ART28162
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Navy inspectresses (High Explosives Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Navy quality control inspectors, High Explosives Section, Government agencies, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong.ART29465
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Navy inspectresses (High Explosives Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Unidentified Naval inspectors in the TNT bay inspect for quality control at the Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong.ART29456
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Navy inspectresses (High Explosives Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Navy inspectors for quality control, High Explosives Section, Government agencies, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong.ART29463
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Near miss, HMAS Wagga [Milne Bay]
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A tall column of water is seen on the right caused by the explosion of a bomb from a Japanese dive-bomber that has narrowly missed hitting HMAS Wagga, some of whose crew can be seen firing at the plan...ART22326
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Never been so fit...
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Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster subtitled ' Make them proud of you!...Never been so f...ARTV04317