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Administrative buildings, Bricosat Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan 1950
Art
Maker: Colville, George
The Administrative Buildings, Bricosat at the Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, painted when Colville was an official artist with the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces (BCOF).ART26954
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Airman (design for Hall of Memory mosaic pendentive)
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Airman of RAAF, design used on pendentive in Hall of Memory, Australian War Memorial, Canberra.ART29387
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Air Vice-Marshal Francis Bladin
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of Air Vice Marshal Francis Masson Bladin, CB, CBE, formerly Chief of Staff, British Commonwealth Occupation Forces.ART27507
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Air Vice-Marshal William Bostock
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Air Vice Marshal William Dowling Bostock, CB, DSO, OBE, Air Commanding RAAF Command Allied Air ForcesART27501
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"A little rough this overshoot eh?"
Art
Maker: Unknown
One of 8 humorous cartoons collected by O216731 Squadron Leader James Henry Cox, RAAF, while attached to RAAF Base Woomera crica 1955. Collectively the cartoons provide insight into the attitudes and ...AWM2021.178.13
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Basic principles for fighting aircraft fires
Art
Maker: Unknown Royal Australian Air Force Unknown
Royal Australian Air force poster published in 1959 outlining some basic principles for fighting aircraft fires and illustrating fire crew positions. The title is positioned across the top of the post...ARTV09669
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Beat the swords into ploughshares
Art
Maker: Vouchetich, Evgeny
This dramatic sculpture portrays a heroic nude lunging forward as he raises a mallet to strike a sword, transforming an implement of war into an implement of peace. The figure's youthful, muscular bod...ART41005
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Beaufighter pilot (Group Captain Edwin Fyfe)
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Maker: Jones, Vernon
Royal Australian Air Force, No 77 Wing; Group Captain Edwin Glen Fyfe, DSO, 77 Wing RAAF, wearing Mae West life jacket and holding goggles; Beaufighter Mk IV in background; defence of, campaignsART27565
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Blue Danube [black]
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Maker: Scarce, Yhonnie
Contemporary glass artist Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973. She belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is one of the few contemporary Australian artists to explor...AWM2016.356.1
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Blue Danube [white and black]
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Maker: Scarce, Yhonnie
Contemporary glass artist Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973. She belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is one of the few contemporary Australian artists to explor...AWM2017.929.1
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Brigadier William Windeyer
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Maker: Godson, John Barclay
Depicts a portrait of NX396 Brigadier William John Victor Windeyer, CBE, DSO and Bar, MID (x3), joined the AIF to command the 2/48th Battalion during its training and in the siege of Tobruk in 1941, w...ART31763
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Captain Hector Waller
Art
Maker: Smith, Joshua
Captain Hector MacDonald Laws Waller, DSO and Bar, was a distinguished Royal Australian Navy officer who saw war service in the First and Second World Wars. In the Second World War he was given comman...ART27505
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Captain Sir James Bisset
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Maker: Allcot, John
Portrait of Captain Sir James Gordon Partridge Bisset, Kt, CBE, Commodore of Cunard White Star Company Ltd. He commanded SS Queen Mary from 1942, (during the war it was a troop ship carrying 2 Austral...ART27770
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Captain Stanley Darling
Art
Maker: Rousel, Roy
Commander (later Captain) Stanley Darling, DSC and two Bars, RAN, commanding Royal Navy escort vessels on anti-submarine patrols; Atlantic Ocean, East IndiesART31768
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Chief Shipwright Alfred William Robinson
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Portrait of ex-Chief Shipwright Alfred William Robinson DSM, RANR ON 10635, Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Australia.ART27506
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Colonel Edward (Weary) Dunlop
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Colonel (Ernest) Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, OBE, MS Melb, FRCS, FRACS. Perhaps Australia's most well known veteran of the Second World War, Edward Dunlop became well-known for his medical work with Austra...ART26999
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"Come on chaps..."
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Maker: Unknown
One of 8 humorous cartoons collected by O216731 Squadron Leader James Henry Cox, RAAF, while attached to RAAF Base Woomera crica 1955. Collectively the cartoons provide insight into the attitudes and ...AWM2021.178.16
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Commander Eric Feldt
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Maker: Carter, Norman
Portrait of Commander Eric Augustus Feldt, OBE, Supervising Intelligence North East Area, Royal Australian Navy, Naval Intelligence Division, who organised and commanded intelligence parties in enemy...ART27504
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Comradeship in the regular army...
Art
Maker: Army Headquarters Publicity
This Citizen's Army Force (CMF) poster states 'Comradeship in the regular army...for enlistment apply to any Army establishment or recruiting centre. The image on the poster is of three men in unifor...ARTV09281
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Corporal John Edmondson
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Maker: Smith, Joshua
Portrait of NX15705 Corporal John H Edmondson, VC, 2/17 Battalion, AIF, was in a small group that attacked with the bayonet a party of Germans which had broken through a point of the Tobruk defences i...ART27532
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Craftsmen serve Australia in the CMF
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Maker: Army Headquarters Publicity
A Citizen's Army Force (CMF) poster stating 'Craftsmen serve Australia in the CMF, apply to RAEME TRG Depot, Irwin TRG Centre Karrakatta'. The image on the poster is of a soldier, probably an enginee...ARTV09285
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Death in the barley (No.1)
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
Soldiers crouch in a field of barley at the base of a mountain range in the distance. Reproduced 'As you were', Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1950, p.145.ARTI00155
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Death in the barley (No.2)
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Maker: Norton, Frank
A group of Turks are marched out of a town, two Australian soldiers on horseback stand as sentries to their movement. Reproduced 'As you were' Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1950, p.146.ARTI00157
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Death March
Art
Maker: O'Connor, Vic O'Connor, Vic
Death March provides overarching critical commentary on suffering and the loss of life caused by conflicts in the twentieth century. It is undated but believed to have been painted in the early 1970s,...AWM2016.615.1
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Design for Hall of Memory, mosaic pendentive
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Maker: Beaumont, Walter Gilbert
Beaumont has depicted the infantry pendentive and he envisaged the finished mosaic to have a strong vertical line. The pendentive figures of the mosaic commemorates the services of the Second World Wa...ART29400
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Design for Hall of Memory, mosaic pendentive [initial design]
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Maker: Beaumont, Walter Gilbert
Initial design for the Hall of Memory mosaic. Beaumont has depicted the infantry and the design has a strong vertical line. The pendentive figures of the mosaic commemorates the services of the Second...ART29399
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Dinghy adrift (No.2)
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Maker: Norton, Frank
An image of rought seas; the right hand segment of a panoramic reproduction across two pages in 'As you were', Australian War Memorial, 1950, p.25.ARTI00145
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Dinghy adrift (No.1)
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Pictures a small dinghy adrift in rough seas; the left hand segment of a panoramic reproduction across two pages in 'As you were', Australian War Memorial, 1950, p.24.ARTI00144
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Dome Section, Cartoon for Hall of Memory Mosaic
Art
Section of design for dome in Hall of Memory.ART29386
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Don't go to sleep. A truce is not a peace
Art
Maker: Unknown United States Army United States Army
A cautionary US Army poster from the Korean War warning troops to keep alert despite a truce being declared on 27 July 1953. A soldier sleeps on a stick of dynamite labelled "TRUCE", his rifle on the ...ARTV08071
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"Do you believe all this stuff about Jindivik"
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Maker: Unknown
One of 8 humorous cartoons collected by O216731 Squadron Leader James Henry Cox, RAAF, while attached to RAAF Base Woomera crica 1955. Collectively the cartoons provide insight into the attitudes and ...AWM2021.178.14
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Emergency
Art
Maker: Unknown Royal Australian Air Force Unknown
Royal Australian Air Force training poster produced in June 1953. The poster advises where the rescue entry points and danger areas are in three types of RAAF planes (Bristol Freighter, Dakota and Wi...ARTV09861
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Emergency
Art
Maker: Unknown Royal Australian Air Force Unknown
Royal Australian Air Force training poster produced in June 1953. The poster advises where the rescue entry points and danger areas are in three types of RAAF planes (Canberra, Vampire and Mustang). ...ARTV09856
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Enlist...
Art
Maker: Army Headquarters Publicity
A Citizen's Army Force (CMF) poster that states 'Enlist...as a tradesman in the regular army apply to any army establishment or recruitment centre'. The image on the poster is of two large cogs, the ...ARTV09283
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Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey
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Maker: Mayo, Daphne Ingham, Alan
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of VX1 General (later Field Marshal) Sir Thomas A Blamey, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, General Commmander-in-Chief, AMF; Middle East, Pacific, also First World War. This p...ART31869
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Flight Lieutenant Norman Williams
Art
Maker: Rousel, Roy
Royal Australian Air Force, Bomber Command, Pathfinder Force, No 35 Squadron; 411624 Flight Sergeant (later Squadron Leader) Norman Francis Williams, CGM, DFM and Bar, air gunner 35 Sqdn, RAF; Essendo...ART27515
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Flight Lieutenant William Newton
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Maker: Cook, Alfred
This posthumous portrait of Newton in his flight gear was based on a photograph provided by the VC's brother Lindsay, and was the result of extensive research by the artist. While Cook reported the p...ART27536
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[Gallipoli landscape]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
The landscape is textured and appears scarred and ravaged through the use of Nolan's rubbing technique. Nolan had visited museums in Athens and seen many Ancient Greek sculptures and artifacts. The ru...ART91305
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Group Captain Hugh Birch
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Portrait depicting Group Captain Hugh M Birch, DFC, who was among Australian air crew in the United Kingdom at the outbreak of war in 1939, and subsequently flew Sunderland flying boats with No.10 Squ...ART31774
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Group Captain Wilfred Arthur
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Group Captain Wilfred Stanley Arthur, DFC, RAAF.ART27539
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Guard the peace...
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Maker: Army Headquarters Publicity
A Citizen's Army Force (CMF) poster that states 'Stand behind the United Nations. Guard the Peace in the regular army'. The image on the poster is of an Australian soldier with a rifle standing on g...ARTV09282
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Hall of Memory: east window
Art
Designed by Napier Waller each one of the Hall of Memory's fifteen stained glass windows represents a defining quality of Australian servicemen and women, incorporating images of Australian soldiers, ...ART90410.003
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Hall of Memory mosaic pendentive: Airman
Art
This Hall of Memory pendentive features the Air Force. In the remaining walls of a cathedral, the flying officer stands and surveys the destruction of beauty and human ideals. He is inspired to defend...ART90409.002
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"Handing over"
Art
Maker: Unknown
One of 8 humorous cartoons collected by O216731 Squadron Leader James Henry Cox, RAAF, while attached to RAAF Base Woomera crica 1955. Collectively the cartoons provide insight into the attitudes and ...AWM2021.178.10
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Handle the most modern equipment
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Maker: Army Headquarters Publicity
A Citizen's Army Force (CMF) poster that states 'Handle the most modern equipment in the RAASC. The image on the poster is of a modern tank in a landscape.ARTV09288
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"Hands, coalship!"
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Maker: Norton, Frank
A busy deck scene aboard a coalship. Reproduced in 'As you were', Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1950 p. 132.ARTI00154
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HMAS Melbourne
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Maker: Sealy, Doug
This oil painting depicts the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne at sea.ART29000
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In a repatriation hospital (No.1)
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Maker: Norton, Frank
A view of a repatriation hospital at night. Reproduced 'As you were', Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1950, p. 89.ARTI00165
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In a repatriation hospital (No.2)
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Maker: Norton, Frank
A composite image of objects relating to a repatriation hospital, such as a shaving equipment, cups, a vase of flowers, a torch, and a baseball bat. The background has stars across a dark sky, and a c...ARTI00167
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'Jeff : "I wish they had 3MK7 Now!"'
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Maker: Unknown
One of 8 humorous cartoons collected by O216731 Squadron Leader James Henry Cox, RAAF, while attached to RAAF Base Woomera crica 1955. Collectively the cartoons provide insight into the attitudes and ...AWM2021.178.1