Moresby Anti Aircraft Battery in Action

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Accession Number ART23678
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 38.8 x 48.2 cm; frame: 55.8 x 64.9 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas
Maker Ashton, Richard
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
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

Gunners of the Royal Australian Artillery with their four inch anti-aircraft gun firing on Japanese planes raiding Port Moresby.