US Camp Guard and Corporal (Private Bill Diesroth and Corporal Bill Morrow)

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne
Accession Number ART25811
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 55.9 x 38.2 cm (sheet); 40.3 x 23.6 cm (squared) with fold over mount
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil on paper
Maker Bush, Charles
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Drawn at Camp Murphy, Melbourne Cricket Ground especially for the 1942 A.W.M. Christmas Book, "Soldiering On." On the left is private Bill Diesroth, Corporal Bill ('Bloody Bill') Morrow, who signed cartoons that he did for "Camp Newspaper" as "Bloody Bill".