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  1. AIF aerodrome near Bertangles

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    Maker: Fullwood, A Henry

    Depicts the AIF aerodrome near Bertangles, with field observation binoculars (tripod legs) in right foreground, several soldiers and pilots of the No 3 Squadron, aircraft in the aerodrome and sky (the...

    ART02477

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    Air-Vice Marshal Adrian Cole

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    Maker: Unknown

    Depicts Air Vice Marshal Adrian Lindley Trevor Cole (1895-1966) CBE, DSO, MC, DFC. Air Vice Marshal Cole enlisted on 28 January 1916 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Orsova on 16 March 1916 as ...

    ART50241

  3. Air Vice-Marshal F.H. McNamara

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    Maker: Gilbert, Donald

    Plaster bust of Air Vice-Marshal Francis 'Frank' Hubert McNamara, VC, CBE (4 April 1894-2 November 1961). McNamara flew in the First World War with the No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC) an...

    ART34904

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    Air Vice-Marshal Frank McNamara

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    Maker: Honisett, Ray

    Depicts a montage portrait of First World War and Second World War No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corp and No. 5 Flying Training School; Air Vice Marshal Frank Hubert McNamara, VC, CBE, RAAF. The wo...

    ART29094

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    Air Vice-Marshal George Jones

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    Maker: Murch, Arthur

    Air Vice Marshal (later Air Marshal Sir) George Jones, CBE, DFC, Chief of Air Staff Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

    ART25968

  6. [Australian Bristol Fighter A-7196 on patrol in Palestine]

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    Maker: Muir, Gerald

    Australian Bristol Fighter A-7196 on patrol in Palestine. The artist has dedicated the picture to "Dick Challinor, in memory of Palestine, 1918". On 1 May 1918, the Bristol Fighter A7196 in which Lieu...

    ART94126

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    Australian flying squadron aerodrome, near Villers-Bocage

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    Maker: Streeton, Arthur

    Depicts an RE8 aircraft standing near a group of tents at Villers-Bocage in France. One aircraft is seen in the right foreground, another at the left distance and one in the air. Arthur Streeton is be...

    ART03526

  8.

    Bill Taylor

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    Maker: Frith, John

    Caricature bust of Sir Patrick Gordon 'Bill' Taylor.

    ART40891

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    Captain Arthur Cobby

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    Captain (later Air Commodore) Arthur Henry Cobby, DSO, DFC and two Bars, MID (later also CBE, AFC, and GM), was one of the most daring pilots in the Australian Flying Corps during WW1, bringing down t...

    ART03180

  10. Captain Ross Smith

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    Captain Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, KBE, MC and Bar, DFC and two Bars, AFC, MID, is perhaps best know for his flight from England to Australia with his brother Keith, and J M Bennett and W H Shiers in ...

    ART03179

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    [Crashed Plane]

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    Maker: Betteridge, Allan Rupert

    Depicts a Pilot, a mamber of the AFC (Australian Flying Corp) scratching his head, with a bird sitting on the wreckage of his plane. This illustration is assocaited with the Kia Ora Coo-ee' magazine. ...

    ART94729

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    Dawn at Hamel, 4 July 1918

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    Maker: Bell, George

    Depicts the Battle of Hamel, July 1918. Australian Corps were under the command of General John Monash (the Battle of Hamel was his first operational success; the Australians had artillery support of ...

    ART03590

  13. Dawn encounter, 4 squadron, AFC and Richthofen's circus, France, March 1918

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    Maker: Hammond, David

    Depicts Sopwith Camels of No. 4 Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC) in combat with German scouts over the Western Front. The Camels, led by Captain A. H. Cobby, encoutered von Richthofen's (the 'Re...

    ART17171

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    Ernest Guest

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    Maker: Westwood, Bryan

    Ernest Guest (b.1895) enlisted early and landed at Gallipoli with the 13th Battalion. He was wounded during the Battle of Lone Pine and evacuated. He was discharged medically unfit in 1916 and went b...

    ART90420

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    Lieutenant Colonel Richard Williams

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    Maker: Power, H Septimus

    Lieutenant Colonel Richard, DSO, OBE, Commanding Bde RFC; campaign Australian Flying Corps, No. 1 Squadron, 40th Wing, Brigade. H Septimus Power was an official war artist attached to 1st Division AIF...

    ART08008

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    Mural of Australian military aircraft

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    Maker: Freedman, Harold

    No longer accessible to the public, this mural of Australian military aircraft was commissioned by Australian War Memorial in 1968 and completed in 1972. The galleries were redeveloped in 1999/2000, w...

    ART27777

  17. Mural of Australian military aircraft, 1914-1918 period

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    Maker: Freedman, Harold

    Mural of Australian military aircraft, 1914-1918 period. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records Secti...

    ART27777.001

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    Old S13, struck off strength after 10 months' service

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    Maker: Streeton, Arthur

    Depicts an RE8 aircraft on the No. 3 Squadron airfield at Poulainville, Villers Bocage, stripped of engine cowling and wings (RE = Research Experimental). The Australian Flying Corps (AFC) was establi...

    ART03508

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    The Aeroplane is Coming!

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    Maker: Unknown Commonwealth Government of Australia Hobart Mercury

    Post-war peace loan poster promoting the appearance of 'the aeroplane'. The exuberance of this poster reflects the excitement generated by the first and second Peace Loan campaigns which used novel me...

    ARTV03501

  20. The arrival of the British Fleet

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    Maker: Streeton, Arthur

    The subject of the painting is the arrival of the British Fleet in Melbourne on 17 March 1924 on its round-the-world journey. In this unique work Streeton has depicted the arrival of the Empire Specia...

    ART91646

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