Grovesnor, LHQ Signals, Albert Park

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne
Accession Number ART25305
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 37.8 x 55.2 cm; image: 31.4 x 48.2 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil on paper
Maker Browning, George Julian
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
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

Depicts to military personnel marching along a footpath. In the background is a historical building surrounded by trees.

Grosvenor, Land Headquarter Signals, Albert Park. In peacetime this building was used as a reception hall for weddings, balls etc. During the Second World War it became the brain centre of the Allied Land Forces in the South West Pacific Area as a Signals Centre.