| Place | Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Atherton Tableland, Atherton |
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| Accession Number | ART22291 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Overall: 40.6 x 45.4 cm |
| Object type | Painting |
| Physical description | oil on canvas on plywood |
| Maker |
Abbott, Harold |
| Place made | Australia: Queensland, North Queensland, Atherton Tableland, Atherton |
| Date made | 1944 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Drawing a Batch
Description
Depicts three soldiers baking bread, and removing the bread from oven. 3 Australian Field Bakery Company, General Details Issuing Depot; Corporal G A Moore, Private R K Brennan, Private C Oakes (all Bakery Company). The man on the right is using a 'peel' to draw tins out of the oven. The man in the centre takes the tins as they reach the front of the oven and puts them on the table, removing the loaf as he does so. The third man stacks the loaves, greases the tins and, with assistance of a fourth man, not shown, removes the loaves to the bread room. The oven is a double-decker steam pipe oven and has a capacity of 80 four-pound loaves. This bakery produced 28,000lbs of bread with two platoons and supplies four Detail Issuing Depots.