| Place | Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Greta |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | ART23244 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Overall: 32.5 x 38.5 |
| Object type | Work on paper |
| Physical description | pen and brush and brown ink with coloured ink washes on paper |
| Maker |
Friend, Donald |
| Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne |
| Date made | 1945 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Decorating the officers' mess
Description
At an artillery training regiment in N.S.W. The artist stated that he was "temporarily rescued from the horrors of gun drill, digging gun pits, foot-drill, rifle drill, kitchen fatigues, guards and the infernal, eternal route marches, to execute a series of murals on the walls of the training regiment. Needless to say they were pretty satirical. There was a constant stream of people, from the colonel down to the cooks, inciting one to 'do one of old so and so the time he fell in a flooded slit-trench', and so on". The incident happened at Greta, N.S.W in 1943.
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