Sketchbook - drawings covering life in the service of a typical digger

Place Middle East
Accession Number ART19520
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 26.6 x 36.4 cm
Object type Sketchbook
Physical description blue ink and pencil on paper in soft grey cover
Maker Dunbar, John
Place made Australia
Date made c.1923
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A sketchbook by 1533 Private John Dunbar, who served in the 13th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF), during the First World War. The sketchbook contains 16 pencil drawings covering life in the service of a typical digger in the Middle East and on HMAT Seang Bee (A48). In 1923 Dunbar dedicated the sketchbook to Private M. Hamilton in memory of their friendship on the Troopship HMAT Seang Bee (A48). Pte Hamilton had served in the 2nd Battalion, AIF, during the First World War.

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