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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
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Major General George Vasey
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Maker: Bale, A M E
Portrait, painted posthumously, of VX9 Major General George Alan Vasey, CB, CBE, DSO and Bar, General Commanding the 6th Division AIF. A Duntroon graduate, Vasey served in the First World War with art...ART26932
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Major General Ivan Dougherty
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Maker: Carter, Norman
Depicts a portrait of NX148 Major General Ivan N Dougherty, CBE, DSO, ED, after a period with the 2/2nd Infantry Battalion he was appointed to command the 2/4th Battalion, which he led in Libya, Greec...ART31773
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Night march of the captured and a circle of the dead
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Maker: Winters, Michael
In this work Winters depicts events told to him by Captain William Travers of the 2/1st Battalion. Travers led his company over three campaigns. His relationship with his men and the respect he felt f...ART92807
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Night & retreating troops amid the rocks of the Imvros pass
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Imvros Pass was used by the Australian soldiers as an evacuation route during the retreat.ART92793
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Old Cretan woman in fear, her goat, the devil of old and Australian troops
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Towards midday on Friday 22 May 1941, Captain Ralph Honner led C Company, 2/11th Battalion, through vineyards which were littered with the corpses of German paratroopers, into the tiny village of Cesm...ART92806
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Paratrooper, caught amid the orange grove
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Maker: Winters, Michael
A German paratrooper hangs helplessly in a tree in an orange grove.ART92794
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Sergeant James Nyland
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Portrait of Sergeant James Michael John Nyland (VX2432), who was a stretcher bearer for 2/2 Australian Field Ambulance in the Second World War. Sgt Nyland served in the Middle East, Greece, Crete, Syr...ART21417
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Stoker Petty Officer Percy Collins
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Maker: Cook, Alfred
Portrait of Stoker Petty Officer 18665 Percy Alfred Collins, DSM and Bar, Royal Australian Navy; Battle of Crete.ART31770
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Suda Bay
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Maker: Dargie, William
Heavy fighting and bombing took place during the German attack on Crete in 1941. The sunken battleship HMS "York" is seen in the middle of the harbour, Crete.ART23871
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Sydney - Bartolomeo Colleoni action, 19 July 1940
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Maker: Norton, Frank
This large painting commemorates Sydney's place as one of Australia's most famous warships and its role in Australia's major naval success of the Second World War. In July 1940 a 90 minute battle bet...ART28486
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2/4th Battalion Position, Heraklion, Crete
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a landscape view over the sea at Heraklion, Crete from the 2/4th Battalion positions, looking towards Iraklion and Alikarnissos. William Dargie was appointed official war artist in 1941, servi...ART23862
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The arrival in Crete
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Maker: Winters, Michael
The arrival in Crete, an Australian soldier reaches out to shake the hand of a Cretan man, while the women of Crete watch on. The extended arm of the Australian soldier symbolises the typical long an...ART92791
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The Battle of Retimo
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Maker: Jones, Vernon
This painting depicts the Battle of Retimo in Crete. A large part of the Allied force evacuated from Greece at the end of April 1941 was disembarked on Crete in order that the ships could return quick...ART27776
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The black-winged figure from the north in conflict with the antipodean
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Maker: Winters, Michael
A symbolic treatment of the battle, the dark sinister winged figure can be seen as a fallen angel in mortal combat with the Antipodean.ART92798
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The burial of a comrade, among the vines of Crete
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Australian soldiers make a hasty grave amid the vines of Crete. A rough cross and his helmet are the only evidence of his passing in a foreign land.ART92790
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The church of St George and a wounded Australian
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Maker: Winters, Michael
The church of St George was used by the German’s as a safe house and position from which to attack the Allied soldiers. On 27 May in an attempt to take the Church and therefore destroy a threatening ...ART92789
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The disembarkation of the troops
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Maker: Winters, Michael
A stream of troops disembark to face yet more conflict in the ancient land of Crete.ART92800
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The escape of an Australian soldier
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Private Stan Carroll, a soldier from Western Australia, found a 16-foot Greek fishing boat and decided to escape. He used a piece of driftwood as a mast, a fishing spear as a boom, and a piece of bamb...ART92808
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The offering of bread from a village to an Australian soldier
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Corporal Frank Atkins of 2/11th Battalion, had, like the other Australian soldiers, fought in North Africa and Greece and now found himself on Crete facing a new German offensive. As Atkins marched ...ART92803
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Two Australian troops at Hora Sfakia
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Hofa Sfakia, a small village situated on the bony south coast of Crete, was the point where allied ships evacuated what troops they could. The allied troops, tired, thirsty and threatened had to trud...ART92801
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Velvendos village
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Maker: Dargie, William
View of Velvendos village on Crete with buildings, and the lone figure of a woman on the road in foreground. Blue and grey hills in background; ice-capped hills in the distance.ART23834
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View looking S.E from 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion positions near Alikarnassos
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Maker: Dargie, William
Showing landing areas of parachutists and glider-borne troops during the German invasion of Crete in May 1941. The landings were made in the middle distance.ART24049
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View of Hill 'C' and church
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Maker: Dargie, William
Both the Hill and the church figured prominently in the bitter fighting in this area, between the defending Allied forces and the Germans who invaded the Island of Crete by paratroops and the air-born...ART23865
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Warant Officer 2 Douglas (Jock) Taylor
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting VX5449 Warrant Class 2 Douglas R 'Jock' Taylor, DCM, original member of 2/7th Infantry Battalion, served with the unit through its campaigns in Libya, Greece and Crete. In the fierc...ART27529
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Wounded, among the olives
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Maker: Winters, Michael
An Australian soldier lies bleeding to death among the olive trees in Crete.ART92792
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Wounded at the church, Imvros
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Maker: Winters, Michael
A church at Imvros was used by the Allied troops as a shelter in which to treat the wounded and the dying during the retreat.ART92788