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Approaching storm, native huts, Bougainville
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Villagers gather in front of huts as a storm approaches from the mountain range in the background.ART94337
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Artist's sketchbook of drawings of HMAS Nepal, portraits and scenes onshore
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Maker: Coburn, John
Bound sketchbook of 14 pages containing 11 drawings including title page and two loose sheets, five blank pages, and two fascimiles of cartoons on paper. The sketchbook was produced at the time of Joh...ART93105
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Bagan Belak village, Butterworth
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Maker: Bush, Charles
A scene at Bagan Belak village, near Butterworth RAAF Base. A boat is in the foreground, while around it are locals, chooks, a house and palm trees.ART27546
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Base Depot, Koitaki, New Guinea
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A sketch of the Base Depot at Koitaki, New Guinea, with several soldiers shown seated in the foreground and native buildings in the background.ART29871
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B.B.C.A.U. Officials looking over devasted Brunei
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Maker: Flett, James
Wing-Commander Kay and an English Major landed with 2/17th Australian Infantry Battalion at Brooketon Landing and marched with them to Brunei and looked over the town preparatory to setting up the Bri...ART23358
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Bren gun carriers from 6th Div. Cav. crossing River Orontes near Hermel
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Maker: Dargie, William
Painting of bren gun carriers from the 6th Australian Division crossing the River Orontes near the village of Hermel. The river here is crossed by an old Roman bridge.ART22370
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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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East meets west (First British convoy en route to Berlin)
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
In one of his first paintings of early convoys on route to Berlin, official war artist Colin Colahan depicts the evacuation of German refugees and troops from the capital and surrounding villages as a...ART26247
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Escarpment SW of Servia
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Maker: Dargie, William
Scene of a rearguard action by the Australian and New Zealand forces during the withdrawal from Greece.ART23831
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Finschhafen seascape
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a view of the landscape over Finschhafen, New Guinea.ART26116
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Fountain and church near Kozani
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Maker: Dargie, William
This is a small pencil sketch, with a hand drawn border, featuring a fountain and church. Outside the border on the sheet of paper is a rough, incomplete sketch of a woman carrying two buckets on a r...ART23963
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Gumilababa, Trobriand Islands
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Maker: Sodersten, Emil
Depicts a village with huts, shelters and pathways, in a dense jungle setting on the Trobriand Islands. Emil Sodersten (1899-1961) was an architect. From 1915 he studied part-time at Sydney Technical ...ART32366.023
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In Vale of Tempe
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Maker: Dargie, William
A village in the Pinios Valley near Tempe as seen from positions held by 2/2nd Australian Infantry Battalion during heavy attacks by Germans on the rearguard of the British forces withdrawing from Gre...ART23985
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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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Isurava village
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Maker: Nicholls, John
A view of the village of Isurava, New Guinea, showing huts built with local materials and the surrounding landscape of the Owen Stanley Ranges. This work was drawn by soldier artist Lieutenant John Ni...ART93267
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Kure J, S.L.F. [Special Landing Force]
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Maker: Dargie, William
View of the beach at Waga Waga Village, New Guinea, scene of an abortive landing by the Japanese. It was following this landing that the Japanese received their first decisive defeat on land, Milne Ba...ART23169
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Liberty Trucks
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
In the village square in Antwerp the American liberty trucks congregate in the early morning light. The liberty trucks had a top speed of 24 km/h and were primarily used to transport people and in thi...ART26249
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"Listen, will you stop coasting on these flaming hills!"
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Maker: McLaren, Gus
Cartoon published in the Services Annual 'As you were', Australian War Memorial, 1949, p. 181. Depicts a rickshaw careening through a village, with an Australian soldier on the back looking like he's ...ARTI00417.001
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"Listen, will you stop coasting on these flaming hills!" [colour overlay]
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Maker: McLaren, Gus
Work on blue vellum representing area for colour overlay of ARTI00417.002 "Listen, will you stop coasting on these flaming hills!"ARTI00417.002
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Merauke coastline natives; verso: The bastard warrant officer
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Two officers are depicted talking to a native man in a village on the Merauke coastline, as local women and children look on in the background verso: A cartoon depicting a warrant officer lecturing a...ART29948