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A Halifax four-engined bomber
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Maker: Unknown
This British war poster shows a photograph of a Handley Page Halifax Mark II being checked before take-off.ARTV08521
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A Handkerchief in Time Saves Nine and Helps to Keep the Nation Fighting Fit : Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases
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Maker: Ministry of Health LONDON : MINISTRY OF HEALTH, [N.D.] (S.L. : NORBURY PRINTERS FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE)
British Second World War poster, produced by the Ministry of Health, depicing a man using a handkerchief, with images of nine smiling faces of people from the community appearing below him. The first ...ARTV01942
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A hand of poker
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of Flying Garry Munro Blumer 413517, 450 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force, who was shot down at one time before the German line North of Pescara. He was fortunate in meeting Ital...ART24439
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A2-12 HMAS "Australia"
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Sketch of Supermarine Walrus (Seagull) A2-12 by Official War Artist Frank Norton. This sketch was completed between either 22 January and 7 February or between 18 August and 18 October 1937, when this...AWM2021.99.1
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A hot sun; verso: not titled [sketch of a man]
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Maker: Walker, Ralph
Four male, unidentified soldiers sit huddled in a group, each with their knees pulled up to their chests. All are wearing broad brimmed hats; verso: sketch of male, unidentified soldier, wearing shor...ART29136
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Ahoy There. Are My Civvies Ready?
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Maker: Unknown Ministry of Supply H.M. Stationery Office Multi Machine Plates Ltd
British poster produced immediately after the cessation of hostilities of the Second World War. The poster highlights the need for civilian clothing with the huge population influx with the return to ...ARTV03385
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A.H. Phillips
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Maker: Milgate, Eric Lovell
Pencil portrait depicting A. H. Phillips, drawn while in a POW Camp in Grupignano, Italy. The sitter wrote his name and address in the lower right hand corner of the image.ART29255.002
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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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[A Hudson aeroplane]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a study of an aeroplane, a Hudson bomber. The Lockheed Hudson was an American-built light bomber and coastal reconnaissance aircraft built initially for the Royal Air Force shortly before the ...ART96513
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AIF canteen, Selarang
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Where troops could purchase coconuts, Java weed (tobacco), guala malacca (brown sugar) etc. Selerang Barracks were in the Changi area and were also used as a prisoner-of-war Camp. Soldiers queuing at ...ART26481
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AIF cemetery, Changi, early days
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Graves with wooden crosses in a jungle clearing, AIF cemetery, Changi, Singapore, in the early days. From a small space cut out of the jungle, the cemetery was gradually extended and laid out with gre...ART24494
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AIF cemetery, Changi: front entrance
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Griffin shows the entrance path to the AIF cemetery, with gardens and trees on either side. The AIF rising sun symbol strung on two poles at the path entrance.ART26477
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AIF cemetery, Changi: interior
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
In this cemetery are buried all the AIF prisoners-of-war of the Japanese who died in captivity in Changi Goal, Selerang. When this was drawn there was a great difference between the first start of the...ART26478
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A.I.F. coming aboard
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A unidentified soldier of the AIF loaded with with full kit embarking on a landing ship at Morotai to take part in landing operations on Labuan, North Borneo.ART23326
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A.I.F. coming aboard
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A unidentified soldier of the AIF loaded with with full kit embarking on a landing ship at Morotai to take part in landing operations on Labuan, North Borneo.ART23327
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AIF embarking at Stonewall Wharf, Sydney
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Maker: Norton, Frank
In April 1941 Norton recorded troops from 2 Australian Imperial Force disembarking from a train to board a ferry at Pyrmont in Sydney. The ferry would then take them out to a transport ship. Several...ART21100
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AIF embarking at Suez
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Maker: Norton, Frank
AIF troops and members of the Australian Army Nursing Service embarking into Nile ferries which will take them out to the big transports in Suez Bay. (These troops were going to "Strathallan", a forme...ART21012
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AIF embarking at Suez
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Maker: Norton, Frank
A.I.F. troops and members of the Australian Army Nursing Service embarking into Nile ferries which will take them out to the big transports in Suez Bay. (These troops were going to "Strathallan", a fo...ART21011
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A.I.F Embarking - Final roll call
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Final roll call of drivers prior to embarking on SS St Essylt at Port Tewfik. The last of the Motor Transport is being hoisted into its position on the force deck. This cargo vessel is interesting in ...ART21154
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AIF embarking, fore well deck
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Trucks being lowered into holds of SS Carmula at Port Tewfik. On the wharf trucks and Bren carriers are awaiting their turn to be hoisted inboard. Railway trucks are both Egyptian and Palestinian, Sue...ART21750
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A.I.F embarking - loading guns
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Maker: Norton, Frank
A busy scene on the wharf at Port Tewfik as guns (with their trailers), trucks and stores are loaded into the holds of a modern freighter, SS Empire Orral. She appears to be a recent vessel, well equi...ART21268
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AIF embarking - night scene
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Sketch was made at Port Tewfic, Suez Canal. Looking along the aft well deck on the M.V "Anna Odland". The last trucks have been placed in position on the hatches, the drivers already embarked, are pre...ART21058
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AIF Engineers making a road, Kokoda
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Royal Australian Engineers; group of Engineers standing at side of road as convoy of Army trucks passesART23677
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A.I.F engineers road building
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Engineers from the Australian Imperial Force are depicted as they build a road above Rouna, Port Moresby.ART29862
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AIF Ex-POW
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Maker: Moore, Alan
A portrait of an unidentified member of the AIF recently recovered from a German prisoner of war camp. Alan Moore was appointed an official war artist in November 1943 and his commission was to depict...ART25724
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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 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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A.I.F HQ baggage party
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Headquarters cases and baggage on a barge at Port Tewfik awaiting transfer to troopship SS"Laconia" in Suez Bay. Guard is from Headquarters, Middle East. A Motor Transport ship, very light, as trucks ...ART21059
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AIF Malaya memorial
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Maker: Dowie, John Stuart Meridian Sculpture Founders
Statue in memory of the men and women of the AIF Malaya who held up the Japanese advance on Singapore 14 January - 15 Feburary 1942.ART41004
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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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A.I.F. Race Meeting
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Maker: Unknown Jaffa Press Company
During wartime, it has become a common practice to recreate certain important Australian sporting events overseas. For example in 1943 a 'Brownlow Medal' was presented to Corporal Leslie Allan 'Peter'...ARTV02536
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AIF seedling nursery, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing portion of the AIF nursery where seedlings were raised for planting in the unit gardens in the prisoner-of-war camp at Changi. Vegetables grown in these gardens were an essential addition to t...ART26509
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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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AIF walking wounded disembarking from Greece
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Wounded AIF soldiers disembarking from the ship at Alexandria after their return from Greece.ART21886
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Ailalec
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Maker: Papworth, Francis John
This is one of 6 small watercolours by Corporal Francis John ‘Curly’ Papworth relating to his service with 2/4 Independent Company in Timor Leste (then Portuguese East Timor). Ailalec is a small villa...AWM2022.901.1
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Airacobra being repaired
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A group of men are shown repairing a Bell P39 Airacobra fighter aircraft on an airfield in New Guinea. A cluster of petrol drums can be seen in the foreground.ART23682
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Air Chief Marshall Sir Arthur Tedder, G.C.B.
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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...ARTV10366
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Air Chief Marshall Sir Arthur T. Harris, K.C.B., O.B.E, A.F.C.
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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...ARTV10354
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Stuart Burnett, KCB, CB, CBE, DSO, formerly Chief of Australian Air Staff, retired 1941ART26263
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Air Commodore John McCauley
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Maker: Jones, Vernon
Air Commodore John Patrick Joseph McCauley, CBE, Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Royal Australian Air Force.ART27584
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Air Commodore Leslie Brown
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait depicting Air Commodore Leslie Oswald Brown, RAF, later Air Vice Marshall Sir Leslie Brown. This was a study that Dargie sketched for his painting the 'signing of the Armistice at Acre'.ART22021
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Aircraft at Singapore airport with First Aid Nursing Yeomanry canteen
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Maker: Buckmaster, Ernest
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24...ART23382
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[Aircraft bombardment]
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Maker: Hall, Alan
A group of men in a small boat coming under air attack. The artist Alan Hall enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Second World War he served on sever...ART93353
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Aircraft carrier in dock
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Maker: Ragless, Max
HMS Indomitable in the Captain Cook Dock, Sydney.ART26037
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[Aircraft carrier]; [Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero with Aichi D3A Bombers on Aircraft carrier]
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Maker: Ogi, Tomu
Recto: Right hand side of watercolour depicting a Japanese aircraft carrier. Verso: Left hand side of watercolour featuring a Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero with Aichi D3A 'Val' Bombers on aircraft carrier, wai...ART91042.002
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[Aircraft carriers with Nakajima B5N Torpedo Bomber]
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Maker: Ogi, Tomu
Recto: Blank page; Verso: left hand side of the watercolour of Aircraft carriers with Nakajima B5N Torpedo Bombers ( 'Kate' Carrier attack bomber) taking off the aircraft carrier.ART91042.013
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[Aircraft carriers with Nakajima B5N Torpedo Bomber]; [Nakakima B5N Torpedo Bomber attacking the USS Virginia]
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Maker: Ogi, Tomu
Recto: left hand side of the watercolour featuring Aircraft carriers with Nakajima B5N Torpedo Bombers; Verso: left hand side of watercolour featuring Nakakima B5N Torpedo Bomber ('Kate' carrier attac...ART91042.014
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Aircraft carrier, Sydney Harbour
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Maker: Ragless, Max
A carrier is being turned in the Sydney Harbour by tug boats. The carrier is one of the Royal Navy units serving with the British Pacific Fleet.ART26029
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[Aircraft details]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Several annotated studies of aircraft in flight and on the ground. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Peter and Elizabeth Pidgeon in memory of William Edwin Pidge...ART96550
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[Aircraft in a sandy landscape]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Aircraft lands in a sandy landscape with green trees in the distance. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Peter and Elizabeth Pidgeon in memory of William Edwin Pi...ART96559