Shared Experience: Working in the snow, Australian Forestry Unit, Scotland
Sheila Hawkins
Working in the snow, Australian Forestry Unit, Scotland
crayon, watercolour, gouache on paper
56 x 76.6cm
Hawkins became interested in activities that received little or no official recognition yet were a vital part of war on the home front. The Australian Forestry Company had originally expected to be sent to France, but then that country was occupied by German forces. And so, much to their frustration, they found themselves felling trees in Britain, although still expected to continue with regular military training. While on leave, Hawkins was given access to the forestry crews.
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Leonard Brooks - Glass-blowers 'Gathering' from the Furnace
Mervyn Peake - Parachute Riggers
Paraskeva Clark - Sections of buoyancy tank and floating caissons, Sydney graving dock
Herbert McClintock - No 1 projectile shop, (Commonwealth Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong)
Sybil Craig - Working in the snow, Australian Forestry Unit, Scotland
Sheila Hawkins - Hull Riveting
Frederick B. Taylor - ATS at Work
Rodrigo Moynihan - The Camouflage Workshop, Leamington Spa, 1940
Edwin La Dell - The Merchant Navy: The chain-locker
Henry Carr - Private Roy, Canadian Women's Army Corps
Molly Lamb Bobak - Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring
Dame Laura Knight - The billy boy
William Dobell - Transport driver (Aircraftwoman Florence Miles)
Nora Heysen - Weighing Down The Tail, New Brunswick
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