35 Battalion Memorial Chapel, 1945

Accession Number ART93023
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 26.5 x 18.5 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description watercolour on paper
Maker Evans, Rod
Place made New Guinea1
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

A chapel built by the 35 Infantry Battalion AIF, at Alexishafen, New Guinea, in 1945. The chapel was built in a coconut plantation from palm logs, a thatched palm leaf roof, and waterproofed Hessian walls. The seating, communion rails and pulpit were made from coconut logs.

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