Flight Lieutenant Clive (Bardie) Wawn

Accession Number ART31655
Collection type Art
Measurement framed: 113 cm x 88 cm x 6 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas on wood panel
Maker Freedman, Harold
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Depicts a portrait of 400163 Flight Lieutenant Clive Newton (Bardie) Wawn, DFC, RAAF. 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.