Artillery surveyors

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne
Accession Number ART26097
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 49 x 59.3 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on hardboard
Maker Bush, Charles
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Artillery surveyors at the beginning of the traverse. The computor (seated) with binoculars and bandolier takes down the readings as the instrument man gives them. This sketch is a reconstruction of a scene familiar to the artist whilst a member of 2 Australian Survey Regiment.