RAAF Trainees try ice hockey

Australian trainees' efforts at ice hockey were a great source of amusement to Canadians - the Australians played with more vigour than skill and were mostly to be seen in the prone position. Ralph Malcolm Warner (1902- 1966) was appointed Official War Artist in 1943, covering the activities of the RAAF in Canada, United States and the Bahamas. His first mission was in Papua New Guinea recording Australian operation against the Japanese. In 1945 Warner continued to work as a war artist recording civil and industrial war efforts and food production in areas of New South Wales and Victoria. After the war he returned to commercial art, designing posters, murals and postage stamps and illustrating books.