Air Picquet (Gunner K Thompson)

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Accession Number ART21686
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 41.5 x 52.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description sanguine conte crayon on paper
Maker Hodgkinson, Roy
Place made Australia: Northern Territory, Darwin
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

The subject of this drawing is 261617 Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth William Thompson, ED. Thompson died on 5 November 2001 aged 77 years (BS). Royal Australian Artillery, 14 Anti Aircraft Battery; Gunner K Thompson. It depicts him seated and holding a pair of binoculars, while a cockatoo with outstretched wings rests on his knee.