SWY, two pennies and a kip

Place Asia: Borneo, Tarakan
Accession Number ART26781
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 30 x 42.8 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas on composition board
Maker Freedman, Harold
Place made Borneo: Tarakan
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

A group of men gathered around spinner during game of two up. 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.