Delousing captured Japanese equipment (Lieutenant James Baldwin

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Accession Number ART21717
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 41.5 x 53 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description charcoal with sanguine conte crayon, coloured washes, heightened with white on paper
Maker Hodgkinson, Roy
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Royal Australian Engineers, 2nd Australian Corps Headquarters; VX48750 Lieutenant James Baldwin, RAE; Japanese explosives including: two 70 mm artillery shells (white noses), one 50 mm mortar bomb, a 75mm smoke shell, a 75mm armour piercing shell, an 82 mm mortar bomb, and a small land mine hanging on the tent pole, as well as a 90 mm mortar bomb Lt Baldwin is holding