Leaving the Lozenge Feature

Places
Accession Number ART40389
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 45.9 x 29.7 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description carbon pencil, pencil on paper
Maker Hele, Ivor
Place made Korea
Date made 6 June 1952
Conflict Korea, 1950-1953
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Australian infantrymen of 3 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, Commonwealth Division, leaving a place known as 'The Lozenge feature', Jamestown Line area, Korea. They are carrying picks and shovels. The Lozenge is a hill on the south bank of the Imjin River. It was a very well-known fortified position in the Commonwealth sector of the United Nations front lines. The men are wearing British 1944-patterned water bottles. When they first went to Korea in 1950 they were issued with 1937-patterned equipment, but later their equipment was upgraded.