AIF embarking at Suez

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Accession Number ART21012
Collection type Art
Measurement Framed: 61.5 cm x 66.8 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas
Maker Norton, Frank
Date made February 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

AIF troops and members of the Australian Army Nursing Service embarking into Nile ferries which will take them out to the big transports in Suez Bay. (These troops were going to "Strathallan", a former PO Liner). Further along Shell Quai is an oil tanker discharging her cargo and in the distance are the oil storage tanks and one of the harbour's many barrage balloons.