Morotai

Accession Number ART94073
Collection type Art
Measurement image: 10.7 cm x 15.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description watercolour on paper
Maker Waite, Allan George
Place made Netherlands East Indies: Halmahera Island, Morotai Island
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
British Commonwealth Occupation Force, 1946-1952 (Japan)
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Scene from the shoreline of Morotai, looking over trees and out to the ocean. At the conclusion of the Second World War, Waite was stationed in Morotai, waiting for transfer to Japan with the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces.