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[An afternoon under Labuan palms]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts two war correspondents, Jimmy Smythe and Alan Dawes, reclining under palm trees in Labuan, Borneo, with William Pidgeon in the background. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was...ART96703
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And could you inform me of what happened hearabouts?
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Maker: Dunsmuir, Robert
Depicts a soldier smoking a pipe, being asked a question by a war correspondent. The two men stand in front of a mountainous landscape with a citadel in the background. This work is an illustration as...ART94716
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Ascending the Pimple
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
On his tour of New Guinea in 1944 Wep visited 'Guy's Post' , an advanced dressing station on Shaggy Ridge in the Finisterre Ranges. Visiting the site of 3 months of fighting between the Japanese and A...ART29338
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Awaiting emergency landing
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Sketch of a tense moment on an airstrip in Northern Australia awaiting a plane reportedly coming in for emergency landing. Wep captured the activities of U.S Bomber Squadron 319 while on his first tou...ART29341
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Barber's shop in a forward area
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts an unidentified group of 'off duty' soldiers, one having his hair cut by another, one reading, other soldiers watching barber. This painting was reproduced as the cover of the 'Australian Woma...ART29337
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[Busy night scene in visitors and observor's mess]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts the interior of a mess with many men drinking and chatting, including the war correspondents Alan Dawes, Jimmy Smythe and William Pidgeon. This sketch formed part of a letter written on 19/7/1...ART96705
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Captain Bean typing despatches after a hard day at Polygon Wood
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Depicts a profile portrait of the head of Charles Bean, official war correspondent, wearing glasses. Australian-born, though raised in Britain, Charles Bean returned to Australia in 1904. He became a ...ART09931
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Captain George H Wilkins, Henencourt
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Depicts a full length portrait of Captain George Hubert Wilkins, reclining near a doorway, wearing long boots. Born in South Australia in 1888, Sir George Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958) studied engineerin...ART09930
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Cheer up boys, only 3000 miles before dinner !
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a caricature of the artist and war correspondent, William Pidgeon, on a plane, talking to two other war correspondents, Eddie Dunstan and Jack Hickson, who are green with hunger. This drawing ...ART96694
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Chester Wilmot
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of possibly Chester Wilmot, a war correspondent. verso: Sketches of Japanese insignia and a 96 Brent type Light Machine GunART29947
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Excuse me Sir, but they likes their breakfast in bed
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a caricature of the war correspondent Pidgeon standing next to two "patients", the war correespondents Eddie Duncan and Jack Hickson in a bed with the words' Contagious' on the bed and other s...ART96696
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Field hospital, Northern Australia
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
A vivid and impressionistic oil sketch bringing to life a field hospital in Northern Australia described as being 'fully under canvas and capable of being moved at a moment's notice'. Several orderlie...ART94591
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[Figure study]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a number of figure studies and on the verso is a cartoon of Pidgeon. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist and illustrator. During the ...ART96699
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Jeep train for Beaufort
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
On his last assignment as war correspondent Wep was sent to Borneo for two months. Here Jeeps were used in place of broken down steam engines to pull up to three cars. This sketch shows one with a gro...ART29344
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Jim Fitzpatrick, war correspondent
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait of Jim Fitzpatrick, war correspondent, 6th Division, Aitape, New Guinea.ART21679
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Lieutenant Donald Friend
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Donald Friend, official war artist, seated and writing up his diary, during the Second World War.ART93863
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Medical inspection, Morotai
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Painted by Consolidated press's war correspondent ,Wep, this painting is a depiction of a medical inspection tent at night in Morotai. One of a series of paintings the artist did showing various aspec...ART29345
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Mobile press unit in operation
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depiction of the mobile Army newspaper press at Morotai in operation at night. The machine is mounted onto a regular Army truck. Often working until two or three o'clock in the morning the staff, all ...ART29226
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Osman White
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of war correspondent Osman White, at the Coresspondents Hut in Port MoresbyART29973
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Our Contingent in the Soudan
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Maker: Unknown
In the early 1880s, an Egyptian regime in the Sudan, backed by the British, came under threat from rebellion. The British instructed the Egyptians to abandon the Sudan, and sent the popular General Ch...ART96130