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A Message from the Admiral: "We Need Supplies - Especially Food. We Know You Will Not Let Us Down"
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Maker: Commonwealth Food Control
Australian Second World War Royal Australian Navy (RAN) poster, issued by the Commonwealth Food Control. The poster depicts a photograph of the British Admiral, Sir Bruce Fraser, with a convoy of batt...ARTV02124
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A trailer party, Changi 1944
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Two prisoners dragging an improvised trailer loaded with full sacks and escorted by a Japanese guard.ART25100
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Bound for Suez
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Bound for Suez - Freighters bringing up supplies for the army. The canal is something to see, after journeying across the desert. One realises, all at once, how good is the smell of sea water, the sig...ART30081
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Carrying supplies
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Maker: Dargie, William
Usually Papuan carriers moved supplies to the forward areas, allowing troops to focus on fighting and other roles. When they were not available it added difficult work onto their other duties. Dargie ...ART23153
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Changing evaporation coils, HMAS Westralia
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Engineers and engine room staff changing evaporator coils for fresh water supply in No 5 Hold, HMAS" Westralia". These supply fresh water (rationed) for ship's company and troops, Bougainville.ART21140
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Changi trailer party carrying logs
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This party of prisoners-of-war in Japanese hands in Changi POW Camp, are seen carting coconut tree logs into camp for firewood. The logs have been cut just outside the camp by troops of the Australian...ART26488
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Concrete consolidation worker, Sydney graving dock
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Maker: Dobell, William
Unidentified concrete consolidation worker engaged on construction of a graving dock in Sydney. Dobell was working for the Civil Constructional Corps when he painted this work.ART30250
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Corporal Dickinson operating wireless, Signal Store 1944
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Corporal Dickenson of 2/5th Australian Cavalry Commando Squadron testing a wireless set in the Signal Store of the Squadron in Atherton, North Queensland.ART21030
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Dropping supplies by air, Bougainville
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Four dispatchers about to drop supplies by air over a jungle clearing in Bougainville. Three crew members steady the container, called "storepedoes", in front of the open side door of the plane while ...ART94348
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Emergency loading at night, Perth
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Maker: Dobell, William
Dobell's employment during 1942-44 with the Civil Constructional Corps (CCC), activated by the Allied Works Council (AWC) as part of Australia's war strategy, gave him a unique opportunity to depict t...ART30246
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Food needs transport
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Maker: Lewitt-Him H.M. Stationery Office Geo Gibbons Ltd
British Second World War poster by Lewitt-Him. Depicts a train made from a sliced loaf of bread. The title is printed along the top in blue ink, and the message is printed along the bottom in yellow i...ARTV01551
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Jungle swamp, New Guinea
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Maker: Warren, Guy
A jungle swamp in New Guinea, supply debris lies abandoned on the edge of the water.ART94339
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Kitchens and huts outside the gaol walls, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A scene of the Changi camp with kitchens built from scrap materials, huts built of split bamboo and attap roofs, and an improvised trailer for moving goods around camp. In 1944 all the POWs, some 10,0...ART25083
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Landing barges unloading the last stores at dawn, White Cliffs Bay
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Maker: Dargie, William
Several Australian soldiers unloading the last stores from barges at dawn, White Cliffs, Cairns, Queensland.ART21040
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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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Loading freighters, Haifa
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts freighters in the port of Haifa, Palestine (now in Israel) being loaded with war supplies. This was produced as part of the Syrian campaign series of 1941. The sharp linearity of the drawing...ART30282
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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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Meat for Britain...
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Maker: Commonwealth Rationing Commission F W Niven Pty Ltd
Issued by the Commonwealth Rationing Commission in 1943 this poster promotes the sending of Australian meat to Britain. In the upper half of the poster is a photograph showing meat being loaded onto a...ARTV00260
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Native carriers - Wanigela District
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Maker: Dargie, William
Two Papuan men are carrying supplies over their shoulders.ART22072
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Night convoy
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
Servicemen reading a map by torchlight alongside a convoy of stationary trucks. Two searchlight beams cut across the night sky.ART26242