Ammunition Factory - Goulburn

Depicts a wartime Ammunition Factory set amid grazing paddocks in Goulburn, New South Wales, during the Second World War. The Mulwaree River can be seen on the right of the sketch. The tower in the distance is the Rocky Hill War Memorial. Ralph Malcolm Warner was appointed Official War Artist in 1943, covering the activities of the RAAF in Canada, United States and the Bahamas. His first mission was in Papua New Guinea recording Australian operation against the Japanese. In 1945 Warner continued to work as a war artist recording civil and industrial war efforts and food production in areas of New South Wales and Victoria. After the war he returned to commercial art, designing posters, murals and postage stamps and illustrating books.