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  1. 2/3 A.A. Regt Searchlight Bty site

    Art

    Maker: Friend, Donald

    anti-aircraft; 2/3rd Australian Anti-Aircraft Regiment; campaign; anti-aircraft searchlight

    ART23260

  2. A back garden, Peronne

    Art

    Maker: Percival, Cecil

    Depicts a backyard in the town of Peronne, with damaged stone walls and damaged buildings in the rear. Peronne, an ancient French town at the junction of the Somme and Cologne Rivers, was the objectiv...

    ART03299

  3. Abu Gosh

    Art

    Maker: Herbert, Harold

    Abu Gosh, A village beside the road, close to Jerusalem'. Principal leave centre for troops in Palestine.

    ART30084

  4. A Cairo Street

    Art

    Sketch of a Cairo street. Birds fly overhead as groups of people mill in the street below. A figure in the foreground carries a large sack on the shoulder.

    ART03605.009.001

  5. ACCS in France

    Art

    Maker: Crozier, Frank

    Depicts an Australian Casualty Clearing Station (ACCS) in France. Red Cross tents are in the foreground with artillery shells are exploding just beyond them. Nurses and soldiers are in the foreground....

    ART13334

  6. Acre - Australians passed this way!

    Art

    Maker: Herbert, Harold

    Acre - Australians Passed this Way. The bay and town of Acre through which Australian troops passed during their advance towards Beirut. It was in this ancient town that the Armistice Convention was a...

    ART30092

  7. Administrator's office, Rabaul

    Art

    Maker: Bryant, Charles

    Depicts the administration bungalow at Rabaul, New Guinea, which was used during the early part of the British military occupation. This painting is one of a number of the commissioned works Bryant pr...

    ART03628

  8. Advanced dressing station at Smith's Farm, near Corbie

    Art

    Maker: Streeton, Arthur

    Depicts the dressing station of the 6th Australian Field Ambulance in May 1918 amongst farm buildings belonging to the Smith family. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidel...

    ART16250

  9. Advance dressing station, 2nd Field Ambulance

    Art

    Depicts the advance dressing station of the Australian Forces 2nd Field Ambulance, with a motor ambulance in the background. In the foreground there is a table with medical supplies arranged on it, a ...

    ART19763

  10. A famous street of Jerusalem

    Art

    Maker: Ivers, T H

    Depicts a famous street scene in Jerusalem with double story buildings on right hand side.

    ART02606

  11. Afdeeling Schilsters (The vegetable peelers)

    Art

    Maker: Van Grondelle, Connie

    Many women are cutting and peeling vegetables at tables in a building at Camp Karees, Bandoeng. This is one of 28 drawings created by internees of Camp Karees and presented to Mrs Frederika Hessels Va...

    ART91966

  12. After the action

    Art

    Maker: Slawik, Bernard

    Two views of the Lvov ghetto upper and centre. The lower drawing shows a group of people rounded up after an 'aktion'. The 'aktions' were organised SS raids on the ghettos where the Jews would be sear...

    ART90341

  13. AIF embarking at Stonewall Wharf, Sydney

    Art

    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

  14. AIF seedling nursery, Changi

    Art

    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

  15. Albury Station, January 1943

    Art

    Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey

    Depicts a large number of sailors, officers and soldiers on the Albury Railway station platform with their luggage and bags, during the Second World War. This railway station is the scene of great com...

    ART21560

  16. Aleppo citadel

    Art

    Maker: Lambert, George

    Depicts a drawing of a Crusaders' fortress with ruins of two massive gate houses linked by stairway supported by arches. Aleppo in northern Syria is a very ancient settlement, already established by ...

    ART02869

  17. A man whose family died when his house was bombed in a Basrah suburb

    Art

    Maker: Connor, Kevin

    Portrait of an unidentified man beside a bomb damaged house, with other buildings in the background in Basrah. The man's family died when the bombing occurred.

    ART29752.048

  18. Ambulance wagons waiting for hospital ship, Boulogne, France

    Art

    Maker: Bryant, Charles

    Depicts four Ambulance wagons on the dock, waiting for a hospital ship in Boulogne, Pas de Calais, France during the First World War. A large hospital ship is seen in the background, steaming into the...

    ART00164

  19. Amiens Cathedral

    Art

    Maker: Streeton, Arthur

    Depicts a view of the Amiens Cathedral visible above trees and rooftops. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. Hi...

    ART03491

  20. Amiens Cathedral

    Art

    Maker: Longstaff, Will

    Watercolour sketch depicting a view of the Amiens cathedral from the surrounding countryside, with the village of Amiens also depicted. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900...

    ART03013

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