Shared Experience: Harold Freedman (1915–1999)
Art and War
Freedman studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology between 1920 and 1935. He enlisted in the RAAF in 1941 and was appointed an official war artist by the RAAF Historical Unit in 1944 until 1945. In 1968 he was commissioned by the Memorial to paint a large mural depicting the history of Australian military aviation.