Spud barbers, HMAS Kapunda (Able Seaman Emmet Dwyer, Able Seaman John Coop, Cook Eli Landow and Able Seaman Robert Hall)

Place Oceania: New Guinea1
Accession Number ART22768
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 37.9 x 39.6 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description coloured crayons on paper
Maker Hodgkinson, Roy
Place made Pacific Islands: Bismarck Archipelago, Bismarck Sea
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

Although routine orders forbid the peeling of potatoes, this has to be done in forward areas owing to the rough handling of potatoes in transit. Drawing done in the waist of H.M.A.S Kapunda during anti-submarine patrol. l-r: B3654 Able Seaman Emmet Joseph Orchard Dwyer, PM5102 Able Seaman John Walter Coop, S7452 Cook Eli Arthur Landow, PM5983 Able Seaman Robert Victor Hall, all Royal Australian Naval Reserves, Bismarck Sea.