Merlin #2 - Explosive Detection Dog

Accession Number ART96882
Collection type Art
Object type Work on paper
Physical description watercolour on paper
Maker Potter, Rachael
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made 2013
Conflict Afghanistan, 2001-2021
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Watercolour of Explosive Detection Dog, Merlin, who served in Afghanistan. One of 10 watercolours by HSC student and artist, Rachael Michelle Potter, in a series entitled 'Unsung Heroes- Afghanistan', of which nine are in the Memorial's collection. Merlin was an Australian Army Explosive Detection Dog serving with the Reconstruction Task Force in Afghanistan and was accidentally killed in a vehicle incident while on patrol in August 2007.

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