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  1. AA (Happy) Hawkins

    Art

    Maker: Collins, James

    Portrait of A A 'Happy' Hawkins, of 'Falor', Yarran Road, Oatley, New South. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. B...

    ART28403.039

  2. AAMWS (Private Gwynneth Patterson)

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Portrait of NFX173196 Private Gwynneth Patterson, Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS), 2nd Australian Blood and Serum Preparations Unit.

    ART22822

  3. Abaya

    Art

    Maker: Curtis, R Emerson

    Portrait of Abaya, from Daru, Western Papua with palm trees in background. Abaya worked for the Royal Papuan Constabulary. This portrait featured in R Curtis, 'Papuan Profiles: inside a Prison Yard', ...

    ART96168

  4. Abi

    Art

    Maker: Nicholls, John

    A portrait of 'Abi', a native Papuan man, depicting orange, black and yellow markings on his face, and yellow and gold flowers adorning his hair. This work was drawn by soldier artist Lieutenant John ...

    ART93214

  5. Able Seaman

    Art

    Maker: Friend, Donald

    Portrait of a sailor reclining. Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a gunner to the artillery unit near Albury. In 1945, Friend was selected for appointment as official war artist. He ...

    ART23212

  6. Able Seaman Kenneth McIntyre

    Art

    Maker: Goodchild, John

    Able Seaman Kenneth McIntyre, RAN on watch at the Oerlikon gun aboard HMAS Nepal, Pacific Ocean.

    ART22787

  7. Able Seaman, Torpedoes

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    Portrait of an unidentified Able Seaman from the Royal Australian Navy.

    ART23554

  8. Able Seaman Wallace Montrose Ross

    Art

    Posthumous portrait of 22982 Able Seaman Wallace Montrose Ross, Royal Australian Navy, who was killed in action when the HMAS Canberra (I) was sunk off the coast off Savo Island in the Solomon Islands...

    AWM2018.1066.1

  9. AB Seaman, Flinders Naval Depot [Cecil Frank Barlow]

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    A portrait of a typical seaman from the Royal Australian Navy. The work is based on Able Seaman Cecil Frank Barlow from the Flinders Naval Depot in Victoria.

    ART26931

  10. AB Stanley Wright, Quartermaster USS Mexico

    Art

    Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey

    Depicts a portrait of Able Seaman Stanley Wright, Quartermaster USS Mexico, United States Merchant Navy, member of the Merchant Marines, serving on board USS Mexico, a small American troop carrier am...

    ART22149

  11. Ack Ack Sergeant

    Art

    Maker: Bush, Charles

    Depicts a portrait of VX73378 Sergeant W W Raft, in charge Gun L1, 400 Australian Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun Station.

    ART25815

  12. A Concert in the Mess

    Art

    Maker: Adams, Dennis

    One of the few members of No. 3 Squadron who played an instrument was one of the flight mechanics, Leading Aircraftman William Joseph (Chippy) Chipperfield, who would always bring his accordion along ...

    ART24444

  13. Adjutant Major White

    Art

    Maker: Colahan, Colin

    Portrait of Adjutant Major White, Adjutant to Squadrons 452, 458, 460.

    ART26229

  14. Adjutant Raymond Everett

    Art

    Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey

    Portrait depicting Adjutant Raymond Bradbury Everett, Salvation Army representative, 6th Australian Division, Suain, New Guinea.

    ART21661

  15. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbattern, G.C.V.O., C.B., D.S.O.

    Art

    Maker: Unknown British Government Thos Forman and Sons

    One of a series of Second World War posters featuring portraits of British military leaders and politicians. The series was presented to the Memorial by the United Kingdom Information Office, Martin P...

    ARTV10360

  16. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, Bart., G.C.B., D.S.O.

    Art

    Maker: Unknown British Government Thos Forman and Sons

    One of a series of Second World War posters featuring portraits of British military leaders and politicians. The series was presented to the Memorial by the United Kingdom Information Office, Martin P...

    ARTV10369

  17. Admiral Sir Guy Royle

    Art

    Maker: Wilkinson, Jeffery Meridian Sculpture Founders

    Bronze portrait of Admiral Sir Guy Royle, KCB, CMG. Royle was the first naval member of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board and was also Chief of the Naval Staff from 1941 to 1945. This bronze ed...

    ART90537

  18. Admiral Sir Guy Royle

    Art

    Maker: Wilkinson, Jeffery

    Plaster portrait of Admiral Sir Guy Royle, KCB, CMG. Royle was the first naval member of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board and was also Chief of the Naval Staff from 1941 to 1945. A wooden rod...

    ART23957

  19. Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin

    Art

    Maker: Bowen, Stella

    Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin (1882-1954) was a long-serving British naval officer who headed the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) at the outbreak of the Second World War. After a long and illustrious career,...

    ART26262

  20. Admiral Tojo

    Art

    Maker: Hatori

    Porcelain statue of Admiral Tojo which served as the 1941 Navy exam prize in Japan. Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) was the Japanese Prime Minister during the Second World War. He became Prime Minister in 194...

    ART40932

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