| Place | Oceania: New Guinea1 |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | ART32366.018 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Overall: 24.4 x 33.2 cm |
| Object type | Work on paper |
| Physical description | pencil on paper |
| Maker |
Sodersten, Emil |
| Place made | New Guinea1 |
| Date made | 1943 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
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Officer's Mess, Nadzab
Description
Depicts several officers seated at a table , in front of a tent, in the jungle, in New Guinea. Boxes of supplies are in front of the tent to the left of the officers. Emil Sodersten (1899-1961) was an architect. From 1915 he studied part-time at Sydney Technical College and in 1923 joined the firm of architects F R Hall & Prentice in Brisbane. By 1925 he had returned to Sydney and established his own practice and in the same year closed his office to prepare a set of drawings for the international competition to design a national war museum, the Australian War Memorial, in Canberra. During the 1930s, Sodersten designed residential buildings in Sydney and in 1942 enlisted in the RAAF, serving in New Guinea as a Flight Lieutenant with no. 13 Survey & Design Unit. He was demobilised in 1945.