Cartoon for Major Mollard's (2/24 Battalion) Story of Attack, Battle of El Alamein

Place Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Atherton Tableland, Atherton
Accession Number ART26203
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 27.3 x 31.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen, ink and wash on paper
Maker Dargie, William
Place made Australia: Queensland, North Queensland, Atherton Tableland, Atherton
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

Several soldiers lay wounded in the foreground, while in the background a line of armed Australian soldiers advances forward. This is a sketch for the story, as told by Major K. F. Hollard, DSO, of the attack of Battle of El Alamein.