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A Cretan couple witnesses the invasion
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Maker: Winters, Michael
A scared elderly Cretan couple stands in their home as the German paratroopers float to the earth. The civilians of Crete, along with the British and allied soldiers, were amazed by the sight of thous...ART92805
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Airstrip at Maleme
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Maker: Dargie, William
From the hill to the south of the 'drome'. It was here that many German troops transports were landed during the attack on Crete. Troops of the 5th New Zealand Brigade strongly defended the area and i...ART23867
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An escape from Crete, with blankets for sails
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Maker: Winters, Michael
After the surrender, more than 600 soldiers were left behind on the island. Many of these men made their way back to Egypt in landing barges, fishing boats, or submarines. An Australian soldier who ...ART92802
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Artillery Lieutenant (Lieutenant Graham)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Graham, RAA, who served in Crete and Syria, where he was wounded.ART21490
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Blessing of the troops by the bishop of Xania [Hania]
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Maker: Winters, Michael
On arrival on Crete, one of the islands' Bishops offers a blessing to the troops as they arrive exhausted from mainland Greece.ART92796
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Church and village of Pigi
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Maker: Dargie, William
Pigi and the Wadi Pigi lay between the positions of the 2/1st and 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalions at the time the German paratroops made their first attack on Retimo airstrip (Crete) in 1945.ART91041
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Church on Hill 'C' above the village of Perivolia, Crete
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Maker: Dargie, William
The scene of heavy fighting between the German paratroops and 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalion supported by Greek troops during the invasion of Crete by the Axis forces in May 1941.ART24054
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Colour note for painting of khania
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Maker: Dargie, William
Colour note for painting of khania, Crete.ART23868
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Conflict in the land of the Minotaur
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Crete was the home of the mythological Minotaur, a half man half beast. The Minotaur lived in a labyrinth and King Minos sacrificed men and women to the creature by locking them in the Labyrinth to w...ART92795
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Exhausted troops sail to Crete
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Exhausted troops sprawl across the deck of a ship which is carrying them to Crete where they will be engaged in yet more fighting.ART92799
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Freyberg addressing the troops amid the olives
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Maker: Winters, Michael
General Bernard Freyberg VC, a First World War hero, arrived on Crete with other soldiers from the New Zealand Division to command the British and Greek forces on the island. Freyberg was determined t...ART92797
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German paratroopers flight to Crete
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Within a plane flying over Crete German paratroopers sit and await their fate, around them swirls a dark spectre of death.ART92804
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Greece
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Meridian Sculpture Founders
Figure of a soldier fully equipped and wearing winter uniform, marching across Greece in winter.ART90936
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Greece
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Maker: Ewers, Ray
Figure of soldier fully equipped and wearing winter uniform, marching across Greece in winter.ART26412
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Harvesting wheat near Neo Khorion, Crete
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Maker: Dargie, William
View of the town and hillside of Neo Khorion. This was a defensive position for 19th Australian Infantry Brigade immediately before evacuation.ART24068
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HMAS Sydney in action against Italian cruisers
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Maker: Norton, Frank
HMAS Sydney steaming past the crippled Bartolomeo Colleoni in chase of Italian cruiser Giovanni Dalle Bande Nere (out of sight), HMS Hyperion is approaching to rescue survivors and finally sink the wr...ART30095
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HMAS "Sydney" in action with Italian cruiser
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Maker: Norton, Frank
The scene depicts the phase in the action when HMAS 'Sydney' has hit and stopped the Italian cruiser 'Bartolomeo Colleoni' and at 4-5 miles distance is steaming past the vessel in pursuit of the secon...ART23692
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In village of Neo Khorion
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Maker: Dargie, William
During the German invasion of Crete in may 1941, Australian troops withdrew through this village to the evacuation beach.ART24065
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Lieutenant Frank Reiter
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting VX4024 Lieutenant Frank A Reiter, MC, MM, enlisted in the 2/7th Australian Infantry Battalion soon after the outbreak of war in 1939 and served with the unit in Greece and Crete,whe...ART31767