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A bit of home news
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts soldier sitting on the deck of a small U.S. landing craft reading a paper. The landing craft is parked somewhere along the east New Guinea coast. One of 8 drawings from a folio entitled by the...ART28169.007
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Able Seaman
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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
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A deck midships - HMT "Duntroon"
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Formerly the "A" Class dancing space on a coastal liner this deck now accommodates troops who sleep in hammocks and keep their gear in kit rakes built either side of the funnel uptake. When not in use...ART21061
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A fine day at last
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Maker: Brindley, John
Depicts a prisoner of the war relaxing on a chair in the garden between two rows of huts.ART28111
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Afternoon in the tropics
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Maker: Norton, Frank
From above the Compass Platform looking over "A" and "B" turrets onto the fo'castle. Officers and men are carrying out short range pistol practice at target rigged to the starboard guard rail of HMAS ...ART23515
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AIF ex-POWs on leave in Princes Street, Edinburgh
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Australians recently liberated from prisoner of war camps in Germany are seen enjoying civilization again after their repatriation to Great Britain en route to Australia. They are pictured taken in t...ART25725
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AIF POW theatre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This building had been a workshop and was used for about a year by an Australian POW Concert Party until it was required for accommodation. All seats were made from palm logs. Rear stalls made of rubb...ART26496
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AIF theatre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This drawing depicts an entertainment called '203' in progress with three of the cast on the stage - John Wood, Jack Smith and Harry Smith. The entertainment was suprisingly lavish considering the lac...ART26497
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Allied servicemen around a Merry-goround in a northern town, 1944
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Maker: Crooke, Ray
Depicts a group of service men and women standing around a Merry-go-round at night.ART28605
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['All the nice girls love a sailor']
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Maker: Woolcott, Alfred Richard
This work describes through a series of eight cartoon sketches, the story of a young man seeing a sailor with his arm around two girls which motivates him to join the Navy. After much physical effort,...ARTI00542
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A 100 metre hut, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men relaxing outside an atap hut, which is made from split bamboo, with the sides of hut raised for ventilation in November 1944. The garden beds out the front are those of individual prisoners. In 1...ART25063
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[An afternoon under Labuan palms]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts two war correspondents, Jimmy Smythe and Alan Dawes, reclining under palm trees in Labuan, Borneo, with William Pidgeon in the background. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was...ART96703
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Anjo Palace
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Maker: Flett, James
Talkie show of 14th Airfield Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. Lightening, Douglas and Liberator aircraft taking off at nearby Pitoe airstrip added to the dramatic effect, Morotai, Ha...ART26655
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A sentimental song
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Maker: Dargie, William
One soldier is playing a guitar, while three others sit around him singing along. This is as sketch of members of the 2/10th Australian Infantry Battalion after a long climb up the mountains to Casey...ART21328
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At Cards
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts four men on board ship, seated and playing a game of cards.ART93431
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Australian troops disembarking at Alexandria after the evacuation from Greece
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Study for the large painting Hele executed of this subject, depicting exhausted troops from the 6th Australian Division disembarking on the docks at Alexandria after the evacuation from Greece.ART23954
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Back home
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Maker: Herman, Sali
A returning soldier and a woman embracing at the docks in Sydney as others leave the area to catch waiting buses. On the left a wounded serviceman sits while on the right, part of a troopship can be s...ART22893
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[Back view of two soldiers]
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Maker: Macfarlane, Gordon Henry
Two inmates from the POW camp Oflag 7B. They appear to be watching an activity not depicted. Life in the camps could be monotonous so inmates attempted to relieve boredom through a variety of activiti...ART93157
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Ball game practice at night at Morotai
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a group of unidentified soldiers playing basketball at night, Morotai.ART23222
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Barber's shop in a forward area
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts an unidentified group of 'off duty' soldiers, one having his hair cut by another, one reading, other soldiers watching barber. This painting was reproduced as the cover of the 'Australian Woma...ART29337