| Places | |
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| Accession Number | ART26772 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Overall: 76.7 x 91.7 cm |
| Object type | Painting |
| Physical description | oil on canvas on hardboard |
| Maker |
Freedman, Harold |
| Place made | New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby |
| Date made | January 1945 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
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Consummatum Est
Description
Consummatum est - (It is finished). Crashed aircraft stand gauntly in a graveyard at Port Moresby, their forms symbolising the sacrifice of the men who flew them. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records Section and he worked here from 1944 to 1945, in Borneo, Noemfoor and around Australia.