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Naked Gallipoli soldier without head or arms and with a wooden leg. ANZAC painted across the centre of the image. Nolan stated that the stump leg and missing limbs derives from an antique statue which he saw supported by a prop in a museum in Delphi or Athens (from interview 13 April 1978). As a child Nolan saw these men who returned from the First World War with missing limbs to whom these statues of naked Greek heroes with their missing limbs would have borne a great resemblance.

This work was presented by Sidney Nolan, along with 251 other Nolan's from the 'Gallipoli' series, in memory of the artist's brother Raymond who drowned in 1945 on his return from military service at the end of the Second World War.