Squadron Leader Edward Ifould

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Accession Number ART27643
Collection type Art
Measurement Framed: 96 cm x 78 cm; Unframed: 78.4 cm x 60.8 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas
Maker Freedman, Harold
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1946
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Portrait of Squadron Leader E L Ifould, DSO DFC & BAR MID, wearing B-type flying helmet, oxygen mask, observer-type parachute harness and RAAF battle dress. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records Section and he worked here from 1944 to 1945, in Borneo, Noemfoor and around Australia.