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Barbed wire entanglements
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Barbed wire entanglements along a beach in Melbourne. Edward Albert Douglas Watson born 1920, served as an official war artist in Australia, New Guinea and Borneo from 1943 to 1946. He became the youn...ART22195
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Bombardment, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts the bombardment of beaches immediately prior to landing at Balikpapan. Douglas Watson joined the AIF in 1943 and was an official war artist for Australia, serving in Australia, New Guinea and ...ART22992
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Burnt out Japanese aircraft on Kamiri airstrip, Noemfoor Island
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts the remains of a wrecked and burnt Japanese aircraft on the Kamiri airstip on Noemfoor Island during the Second World War.ART23731
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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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Dead Japanese on Kamiri airstrip, Noemfoor Island
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts the corpses of two unidentified Japanese soldiers on Kamiri airstrip.ART22305
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Devastation, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts the devastion and condition of a section of an oil refinery at Balikpapan, South East Borneo, showing oil tanks burnt out after the bombardment preceding the landing by 7th Australian Division...ART22997
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Disembarkation from HMAT "Manoora"
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Disembarkation of 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion from HMAT Manoora, onto Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP), which took them to the beach head, Tarakan, Borneo.ART22476
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Infantry resting on tank knoll
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts men of the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion among ruins of oil tanks on a hill just inland from their landing point on Red beach.ART22477
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Main Street, Brunei
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts a view of Brunei, the remains of wrecked buildings caused by naval gunfire and aerial bombing in main shopping street of Brunei when Australian troops occupied the town. Douglas Watson joined...ART22994
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Patient at Alexishafen Hospital
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Possibly a Casualty Clearing Station rather than a hospital, with an unidentified man reclining on a stretcher, and a doctor attending another patient in background.ART23732
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Private Nishimura
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts head and chest portrait of Private Nishimura not wearing a shirt, seen with serious facial expression. Nishimura was a Japanese prisoner of war captured by the Australians on New Britain.ART26052
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Surrender on Corvette, Kuching Eastick
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Japanese forces in Borneo are pictured surrendering to the 9th Australian Division. This was one of many such ceremonies across the region in which soldiers, prisoners, civilians, and territories pass...ART25662