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[Study of figures sleeping, reading and sitting]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts various studies of figures of men sleeping, reading and sitting. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist and illustrator. During the Sec...ART96702
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The evacuation of school children was carried out with complete success
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Maker: Macfarlane, Gordon Henry
This work depicts a small girl asleep against the tree after the style of Mabel Lucie Attwell. Attwell was a well known children's book illustrator in the early twentieth century. Her illustrations in...ART93162
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The sleeping soldier
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Maker: Lymburner, Francis
Depicts, in grim dark tones, an exhausted Australian soldier sleeping horizontally, with a hut-like structure (bell tent) in the clouded background.ART28102
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top image: Not titled [Sleeping prisoner]; bottom image: Not titled [Two prisoners ]
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top image: pencil sketch of a male prisoner of war asleep; bottom image: sketch showing the back of two male prisoners of war.ART29568
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Torokina airstrip; Verso: Not titled [Sleeping soldier in a chair]
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Maker: Warren, Guy
The airstrip at Torokina lies at the base of mountains with jungle on either side, also features the wooden watchtower. Verso: a seated soldier in a canvas chair rests his head in his hand as if aslee...ART94333.011
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Troops in back of truck, Libya
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
This work captures on canvas the physical and mental exhaustion of troops who have coped with endless marching, dust storms and lack of sleep. The bodies and uniforms piled on top of one another tell...ART28479
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Troop Train 45
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Maker: Marcuse, Ernest Henry
Drawing of 7 Australian soldiers travelling in one carriage of a troop train by E H Marcuse. Several of the men appear to be sleeping. Ernest Marcuse (1900 – 1985) was a German born Jewish artist. Ma...AWM2018.254.50
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Troop train
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts exhausted Australian soldiers asleep in the carriage of a railway train at Albury, New South Wales during the Second World War. In 1942, Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a g...ART23216
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Troop train
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Maker: Russell, Elsa
A group of six unidentified women asleep in train, wearing their overcoats but with hats off, feet on tin foot warmers (filled with hot water and covered in flannel) Sydney, New South Wales.ART29015
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"Troop-Train at Night"
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Maker: Marcuse, Ernest Henry
This drawing by E H Marcuse of nine Australian soldiers sleeping in one carriage of a troop train was awarded 2nd Prize in the Graphic Illustration cataegory of the 1945 exhibition "Australia at War"....AWM2018.254.53
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[Two WAAAFs resting on troop train]
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Maker: Russell, Elsa
Depict two unidentified WAAAFs, travelling by troop train to their first station.ART29013
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Typical Infantryman resting after a patrol
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work portrays an infantryman resting after a patrol in Balikpapan, Borneo.ART22468
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Waiting for draft, Redlynch
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Maker: Bush, Charles
This is a preparatory sketch for the final painting, 'Night draft'. It shows a typical scene at any Leave and Transit Office. Unidentified soldiers with their equipment lying and sitting on the groun...ART26589
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Waiting for transport
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Maker: Marcuse, Ernest Henry
Drawing depicting soldiers attached to the Army Logistics Training Department the artist was serving with waiting for transport at an Adelaide station. A duffle bag in the lower right is inscribed wit...AWM2018.254.51
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Well you asked for it
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Maker: Aria, George Aubrey Aria, George Aubrey
A cartoon depicting Joseph Stalin dressed as Santa Claus delivering a bomb to Adolf Hitler for Christmas.ART92378
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Wheel of fortune; verso: Not titled [Sleeping soldier]
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Maker: Warren, Guy
A packed Wheel of Fortune stall at a fairground, the crowd being mostly airmen and soldiers with an officer talking with a woman turned away from the action. Verso: rough pencil sketch of sleeping sol...ART94334.013
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'X' ammunition lobby, HMAS Hobart
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Mediterranean Sea; HMAS; Centre: Able Seaman (later Lieutenant) Graham P Russell (reading newspaper), other six men unidentified; view of barbette, situated directly beneath gun turret, shell hoist fo...ART21054