Washing jeeps; Loading barbwire; verso: [Soldiers walking down a hill]

Place Asia: Korea
Accession Number ART90321.009
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 30.1 x 21 cm (page)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description carbon pencil on paper
Maker Hele, Ivor
Place made Australia: South Australia, Aldinga, Korea
Date made 1952
Conflict Korea, 1950-1953
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Eleventh page of artist's sketchbook containing six drawings. The upper right (top) drawing depicts two men on a road way , one carrying a sack on his shoulder. The upper left drawing depicts a covered truck about to be overtaken by a jeep on a roadway.The drawing in the upper right (below) depicts workmen bending over, picking up coils of barbed wire. The central drawing (left) depicts a group of men washing jeeps on a roadway, set in a landscape. The drawing in the lower (right) depicts two men with bare chests (hauling rope?) , while the drawing in the lower left depicts groups of standing and seated men on a road in a mountainous landscape. Verso: contains one drawing. The drawing depicts a number of soldiers, one carrying a gun on his shoulder, walking down a hillside.

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