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John McCleery DCM, 103 years on Anzac Day
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Maker: Pugh, Clifton
These two sketches (one seated, one standing) of Mr John McCleery, DCM, who was 103 years old on Anzac Day 1990, were completed at the Eceabat Hotel, the closest hotel to the Gallipoli battlefields. M...ART29516
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Karbala had the stench of awful happenings
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Many people lying of the floor of a building, presumably dead. A ghost-like figure emerges from the bodies, indicating the awful stench. A man, possibly a soldier stands in the doorway of the buildi...ART29752.029
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Khats
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts the artist on the right, wearing a pair of Night Vision goggles while on patrol with Australian peacekeepers, Delta Company, in Baidoa, Somalia. On the left is an elderly Somalian man chewing ...ART90101
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Leonard Hall
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Maker: Westwood, Bryan
Len Hall put his age up to enlist in 1914, and was a bugler with the 10th Australian Light Horse brigade. He left of Egypt where he "learnt to ride a horse". After landing at Gallipoli, he was transfe...ART90417
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Leslie Hales
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Maker: Westwood, Bryan
Leslie Hales put his age up and enlisted under the name of Hayes to join the AIF in Melbourne, 1914. He left Australia with the first convoy and landed at Gallipoli with the 16th Battalion in Anzac Da...ART90421
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Lest we forget the killing fields
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Maker: Sheehan, Peter
A shadowy face emerges from the dark foliage of Mount Ainslie which backgrounds the Australian War Memorial on Anzac Parade. This image references the debate surrounding the Memorial's representation ...ART96675
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Lieutenant General John Sanderson
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Portrait of Lieutenant General John Sanderson AC wearing a blue beret, in front of rows of skulls behind a wooden lattice. Sanderson (born 1940) was appointed military commander of the United Nations ...ART90953
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Loading ballot boxes
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a member of the Cambodian People's Armed Force and a Malaysian United Nations officer loading a full ballot box into an Australian Black Hawk helicopter. Gittoes documented the elections while...ART90112
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Loading tracers, Battembang
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts Private Nigel Ellerton, RAR, 1st Battalion, United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC) loading tracers for rifles (bullets used to assist in aiming), while seated on the floor of a tent, su...ART90111
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Lost
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Maker: Ratnam-Keese, Enid
Lost reflects the experience of war on children in Baidoa. Since 1990 Somalia has been the site of an intensive civil war which Australian Peace keepers have been working to keep at bay. Baidoa, one o...ART91506
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Macka McLean, signaller
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a portrait of Macka McLean, a signaller with the Australian peacekeepers, United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC) in Cambodia in 1993. He is depicted surrounded by the signalling and com...ART90116
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Mass grave
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a number of soldiers squatting at the edge of a pit, used as a mass grave, during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.ART90437
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Mirow and Awliya
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a Somalian woman, Mirow, carrying her six-year-old granddaughter, Awliya to a remote feeding station run by the CRS [Catholic Relief] at Makuboy, Somalia. Behind the woman and child are extens...ART90102
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Morning after all night patrol
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a number of peacekeepers sitting on the ground, with three Armoured Personnel Carriers in the background, cleaning their weapons, checking equipment, grooming, shaving and drinking. The men re...ART90100
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Mother and son Bethlehem Hospital
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
In text accompanying the drawing, Gittoes notes; 'the whole ward [in the hospital] felt neglected by the world. No one had visited them to get their account of events...the boy was about 15; his mothe...ART90369
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Mujahideen freedom fighters
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Maker: Unknown Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan
Poster featuring photographs of three prominent figures who aided the Mujahideen against the Soviet Union in the Soviet-Afghan war. Australian peacekeepers were involved in de-mining and planning ope...ARTV09139
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Mujahideen guerilla
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Maker: Unknown Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan Unknown
A poster of Ahmad Shah Masood, an Afghan military leader who was instrumental in driving the Soviet Union army out of Afghanistan. In 1992 Masood became Defence Minister of Afghanistan under President...ARTV09099
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Namibia: Free and fair elections
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Maker: Unknown United Nations Transition Assistance Group Windhoek
A yellow, blue, back and orange poster showing a map of Namibia superimposed by a hand placing a vote into a ballot box. The words 'Namibia: Free and Fair elections' appear above the illustrations, w...ARTV09100
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Navy, Protecting Australia
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Maker: Unknown Royal Australian Navy Unknown
A recruitment poster depicting five Navy ships and helicopters, seen from above against, sailing through the ocean.ARTV09090
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Nigel loading tracers
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts Private Nigel Ellerton, RAR, 1st Battalion, United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC) loading tracers for rifles (bullets used to assist in aiming), while seated on a matress on the floor ...ART90115