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Maker: Lindsay, Norman Commonwealth Government of Australia Syd. Day, The Printer Ltd
Poster depicts a German ogre, his blood-covered hands and forearms clutching at a globe of the world. Blood pours over Europe, and slowly oozes towards other countries, demonstrating the threat of th...
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Maker: McDuff, Jennifer
Soldier's passport photos beneath images of side-show clowns, portraying the soldier as a 'side-show' clown waiting for the ball to fall into the appropriate slot, a parallel between the ballot system...
ART90142
Aaaaaaa-tention!

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Maker: Jose, Ellen
In 1992 Ellen Jose (b.1951) held an exhibition in Melbourne titled "Black Diggers-Ghost Fighters" to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the beginning of the Kokoda campaign in New Guinea, as well as ...
ART29762
AA (Happy) Hawkins

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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of A A 'Happy' Hawkins, of 'Falor', Yarran Road, Oatley, New South. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. B...
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A.A. lookout, Red Sea [Donald Hambleton-Johnson and Reginald Ward]

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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts Reginald Ward DX621 (N76513) standing, Donald Hambleton Johnson QX18024 2/25th Battalion, 2 A.I.F, part of superstructure of ships during the voyage to Australia of H.M.T "Felix Roussel" a fr...
ART22053
AAMWS (Private Gwynneth Patterson)

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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of NFX173196 Private Gwynneth Patterson, Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS), 2nd Australian Blood and Serum Preparations Unit.
ART22822
2/3 A.A. Regt Searchlight Bty site

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Maker: Friend, Donald
anti-aircraft; 2/3rd Australian Anti-Aircraft Regiment; campaign; anti-aircraft searchlight
ART23260
AASL on maintenance work

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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
From Wagga Wagga in 1943, Mainwaring wrote to Treloar: 'There is a good deal of interesting subject matter here, and I would like to be able to spend more time to capture the spirit of the place? I h...
ART25109
Abandoned

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Maker: Hardy, Norman H.
One of a series of illustrations reproduced in a book by Frank Wilkinson, 'Australia at the front: A colonial view of the Boer War', John Long, London, 1901. Hardy based his illustrations on sketches ...
ART19679
Abandoned gun pit outside Flers

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Depicts an abandoned gun pit with sandbags, barbed wire and a wooden infrastructure, outside Flers about January 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during...
ART09920
Abandoned trench, the Somme

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Depicts an abondoned trench on the Somme. The trench is in the foreground, with smashed trees on the edge and there are Nissan huts and tents in the background. The portion of the trench depicted is p...
ART09912
'A' Battery Field Artillery, New South Wales

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Maker: Roberts, Tom
Tom Roberts established "Curlew camp" at Sirius Cove in Mosman by the end of the 1890s. While camped there, concentrating on painting outdoors, Roberts was commissioned to paint three works depicting ...
ART15032
A battlefield burial

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Maker: Hardy, Norman H.
One of a series of illustrations reproduced in a book by Frank Wilkinson, 'Australia at the front: A colonial view of the Boer War', John Long, London, 1901. Hardy based his illustrations on sketches ...
ART19685
A battle-scarred warrior

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Maker: Heysen, Nora
A large pandanus tree scarred by mortar and rifle fire, Finschhafen, Huon Peninsula, New Guinea, August 1944.
ART22123
Abbeville

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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts tents at the 3rd Australian General Hospital with impressionist figures of soldiers and nurses in front of the tents. In the foreground is a roadway and median strip with flowers. Streeton pai...
ART92139
Abdul

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Maker: Colles, Ted
This work was used to illustrate a poem entitled 'Abdul' in the 'ANZAC Book'. The 'ANZAC Book' was published in 1916 from illustrations, poems, stories and other creative works from the soldiers on th...
ART00046
"Abendico" Italian cook, No. 454 Squadron

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Maker: Moore, Alan
The Italian cook for No. 454 Squadron, Abendico, stands with his hands on his hips. He wears an apron tied at the waist, a waist coat, tie, cap and glasses.
ART26614
A bend in the road

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Maker: Macqueen, Kenneth
A horse and cart are being lead by two Australian soldiers alongside a chalkpit. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by the Macqueen family in 2009
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Abi

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Maker: Nicholls, John
A portrait of 'Abi', a native Papuan man, depicting orange, black and yellow markings on his face, and yellow and gold flowers adorning his hair. This work was drawn by soldier artist Lieutenant John ...
ART93214
A bird's eye view

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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
The words "A bird's eye view" are superimposed over an image of clouds and a bi-plane. This work was used as a illustration in the 'Kia-ora Coo-ee'. The image was drawn on the back of a postcard desig...
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