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"Ah. . . the Seventh Division I presume!"
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Maker: Mercier, Emile
Two officers in uniform on the left encounter a group of soldiers on the right, in a jungle setting. The artist humorously implies that the soldiers have adapted to life in the jungle as they have aba...ART28267
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AIF graves, Lae
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Maker: Kingston, Hector
The artist used some of his supply of anti-malarial medication to execute this sketch of AIF graves at Lae. Both are marked with wooden crosses, and illegible inscriptions likely to be their names/ser...ART94216
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Air Support: Qantas Empire Airways
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Maker: Jardine, Walter Lacy Qantas W.M Brooks & Co. Ltd
Second World War propaganda poster designed for QANTAS by leading Australian commercial artist Walter Jardine. The image is a depiction of Australian soldiers and a Papua New Guinean in the valley of ...ARTV05158
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AMF [Australian Military Forces]
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
A composition consisting of four helmeted soldiers in a jungle setting wearing tin helmets and carrying rifles.ART28378.018
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A.N.G.A.U. natives resting
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Papuans being cared for in a camp administration by the Australian and New Guinea Administration Unit (ANGAU) and employed by that authority. Both male and female were being employed in this area for ...ART21203
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Anti-mite precautions
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Troops applying the anti-mite fluid Di Butyl Thallali (DBT), an effective precaution against the bite of the mokka. Infected mokkas were the carriers of Scrub Typhus, a disease that caused many fatal ...ART21288
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Aussie foxhole as Jap ladder
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Sketch of a jungle setting, including trees and foliage.ART92262
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Australian Military Forces
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
A composition of four soldiers in a jungle setting wearing tin helmets and carrying rifles.ART28376.008
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Australian Military Forces
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
A composition of six soldiers in a jungle setting, wearing tin helmets and carrying rifle.ART28376.007
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11 Battery 2/3 Australian Tank Attack Regiment
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Crew from right section, "K" Troops, 11 Battery, 2/3 Australian Tank Attack Regiment, moving their 6-pounder gun into position at Arndt Point for beach defence task. They are framed by rocks on the le...ART26130
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Bomb crater
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Maker: Koehne, Kurt Casper Irwin
Depicts a local Malaysian person swimming in a bomb crater on Labuan, off the coast of Borneo.ART96207
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Bulldog-Wau Road
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
The view of Bulldog-Wau Road winding through the undergrowth in New Guinea.ART22553
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Climbing through the jungle
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Sketch of servicemen carrying various kinds of equipment. He appears to be climbing through the jungle.ART92307
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Cookhouse, Markham Valley
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Maker: Sodersten, Emil
Depicts two men preparing and cooking food under sail cloths, in a jungle clearing, with papaya and banana trees nearby. Emil Sodersten (1899-1961) was an architect. From 1915 he studied part-time at ...ART32366.028
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F88C Steyr (Bullpup) + Cordited (MS.WWII) Handgrenades (Pineapples) Solomon Islands/Guadalcanal, Gifu + Hell's Point
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Maker: eX de Medici
An F88 Steyr, the rifle used by the ADF, lies on a bed of grenades that have had the cordite removed. The grenades represent Hell's Point, the site of the battle of Tenaru in 1942 and now the decommis...ART94157
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Giants' Combat
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Two giant banyan trees, a species of 'strangler' fig tree, are locked together in an epic struggle. Such trees were common in the Bougainville area, and often had huge trunks of extremely complex stru...ART21454
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Good-day master
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
An Australian soldier carrying a rifle and pack is being drenched by heavy rain in Papua New Guinea. A local man walks past using a large banana leaf for shelter from the downpour. This drawing was re...ART26817
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Great bloody sense of humour you blokes've got!
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Maker: Dargie, William
A rough sketch of the incident portrayed in picture ART22090. As Dargie recalled, "The essence of slap stick humour is still the dignified gent who steps on a banana skin. We were resting on the top ...ART25029
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Great ----- sense of humour you blokes've got!
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of an Australian soldier standing in a pool of muddy water, holding a rifle and waving his fist at his fellow soldiers who are all sitting around laughing. Dargie noted: "The essence of slap s...ART22090
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Gumilababa, Trobriand Islands
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Maker: Sodersten, Emil
Depicts a village with huts, shelters and pathways, in a dense jungle setting on the Trobriand Islands. Emil Sodersten (1899-1961) was an architect. From 1915 he studied part-time at Sydney Technical ...ART32366.023