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Abandoned scout car, Manikin River, Timor
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicting a scout car abandoned on the Manikin River; February 1942.ART26342
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Akiu
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of a young boy, Akiu, a local guide in Portuguese Timor during the Second World War.ART26152
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Ambush at Nunamogue, Timor
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts the site of an ambush point from where "A"Platoon, 2/2nd Australian Independent Company, successfully ambushed a Japanese Force advancing on Ainaro, Portuguese Timor with Nunamogue is in the b...ART26652
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Ambush of a Japanese tanker in Timor
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Reconstruction by the artist of an incident during the sojourn of Timor of the 2/2nd and 2/4th Australian Independent Companies who carried on guerilla war in the hills of Portuguese Timor and at a cr...ART26343
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A Timorese boy
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of an unidentified Timorese boy, during the Second World War.ART26153
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Australian doctors inspecting Japanese sick reports
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts Australian Medical Officers inspecting Japanese medical records, Dutch Timor.ART26148
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Australian Headquarters, Dili
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Ruins of the building which was occupied as Headquarters by the Australian component of the Dutch-Australian Force that occupied Portuguese Timor in 1942. It was later, during the Japanese occupation ...ART26346
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Australian Headquarters, Ossu
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The building used by detachments of 2/2nd and 2/4th Australian Independent Companies as Headquarters whilst in eastern end of Portuguese Timor during their guerilla operations against the Japanese in ...ART26352
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Australian landing point, Dutch Timor
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The beach at Oesapa Besar, near Koepang, Dutch Timor, where troops of "Sparrow Force", landed. "Sparrow Force", which was the Australian component of the Dutch-Australian Force to occupy the Island of...ART26158
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Australian M.O inspecting tropical ulcers at Japanese Marine Hospital
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a scene of Australian Medical Officer inspecting tropical ulcers at the Japanese Marine Hospital, Timor.ART26147
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Australian Observation Post, Same
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The ruins of an Observation Post used by the 2/2nd Australian Independent Company during their guerilla activities against the Japanese in Portuguese Timor.ART26308
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Australian soldier's tomb at Beco
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The grave of a member of the Australian Independent Company who waged guerilla war against the Japanese in Portuguese Timor. The tomb was made by natives who tended it throughout the Japanese occupati...ART26172
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Australian troops barrack, Ainaro
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Ainaro although situated inland was in effect the Base of the Australian Forces operating in Portuguese Timor. The "Lancer Force" Hospital was set up here in 1942 under Captain C R Dunkley, Australian...ART26305
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Beach at Dili
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Dilli, in Portuguese Timor, was the point at which 2/2nd Australian Independent Company, as part of "Sparrow Force", landed to occupy the island as a protection against Japanese occupation. Later, Dil...ART26321
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Blown bridge at Raimunda Meira
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Destroyed by commando troops of Lancer Force during the guerilla campaign against the Japanese in Timor, 1942.ART26327
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Bobonaro
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
A typical Portuguese Timor town. Of Portuguese architecture with an old world savour, they were charming with their buildings of white walls, red tiled roofs and massive encircling ramparts. Bobonaro ...ART26348
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Bomber Pilot (Flying Officer Edward Harding)
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Royal Australian Air Force, No 13 Reconnaisance Bomber Squadron; Flying E A Harding, Captain Pilot of Hudson bomber, RAAF; raids on, and shipping in nearby watersART21348
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Bombing wreckage, Koepang
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a scene of destruction of a building and a wrecked vehicles, Timor.ART26138
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Buildings used by Australian troops
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
A study of the barracks and calaboose in the town of Same, in Portuguese Timor. The buildings were used by the 2/2nd Australian Independent Company during their commando activities in Timor in 1942-43...ART26306
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Bulk fuel tanks, Tenau
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Bulk fuel tanks at the Japanese submarine base, Tenau, Timor, after bombing by allied aircraft prior to the Japanese surrender, October 1945.ART26317
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Camouflaged Jap lighter, Tenau submarine base
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Camouflaged Japanese lighter at the Submarine Base, Tenau, Timor.ART26144
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Captain Dunkley's hospital, Ainaro Timor
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Showing the building in which Captain C R Dunkley, Australian Army Medical Corps, the Medical Officer of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company, established a base for the treatment of sick personnel of...ART26329
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Captain Hori, Japanese Navy
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of an officer of the 6th Japanese Naval Garrison, Captain Hori in Timor during the Second World War.ART26604
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Cathedral at Dilli, through columns of the town hall
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The Cathedral was, prior to the Japanese occupation, a dazzling white edifice with twin towers and reputed to have cost a million pataacas, or about 160,000 pound sterling. Dilli was occupied by Dutch...ART26168
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"Chariots of the Sons of Heaven"
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
A pile of discarded Japanese bicycles heaped in a room of the wrecked house of Portuguese General at Same in Portuguese Timor.ART26159
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Chico (Francisco Palmeira)
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a portrait of a Portuguese Timor man, who assisted the 2/2 Australian Independent Company, (also known as 'Lancer Force'). The man, Francisco Guedes (Chico) Palmeira, assisted this unit in gue...ART26303
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Chinese dwellings, Koepang
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Maker: Bush, Charles
View of the Chinese quarter on the waterfront after the Japanese had occupied Koepang for a three years. This work was executed on the same day Bush arrived in Koepang, Timor via Catalina flying boat,...ART26136
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Christmas Eve in Suai, East Timorese at concert
Art
Maker: Sharpe, Wendy Elizabeth
Christmas Eve at Suai Cathedral where the East Timorese people re-enacted the massacre that had taken place in the cathedral.ART91139
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Collapsed oil tanks, Tenau Submarine Base
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts several collapsed oil tanks at Tenau Submarine Base, Timor.ART26141
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Colonel Jatsueichi Kaida
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of Colonel Jatsueichi Kaida, Commander of the Japanese forces who signed the first surrender towards the end of the Second World War.ART26607
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Destruction's playthings
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a scene of destruction of a building and a wrecked vehicles, Timor.ART26137
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Detail of "Voyager" at Betano
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
HMAS Voyager went aground on 25th September, 1942 when disembarking reinforcements at Betano for the Australian Commando in Timor. "Voyager was firmly embedded in the sand when hit by a bomb from Japa...ART26162
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Dili airstrip
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
In ruins from the Allied bombing during the Japanese occupation. It was here that the section of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company under Lieutenant C E G McKenzie fought a brilliant action when the...ART26323
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Evacuation of wounded from Rai Mean
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicting a scene of the evacuation of the wounded by Catalina from Rai Mean, Timor.ART26222
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Fernando
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a portrait of a Portuguese Timor man, who assisted the Australian 2/2 Independent Company (also known as 'Lancer Force') helping this unit in guerilla activities in Timor during the Second Wo...ART26206
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Figures sleeping, Christmas Eve, Suai Cathedral
Art
Maker: Sharpe, Wendy Elizabeth
Figures sleeping outside Suai Cathedral, East Timor on Christmas Eve in Suai, East Timor.ART91145
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Flying Officer Richard Overhue
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Portrait depicting Flying Officer Richard F. Overhue, of the Royal Australian Air Force, relaxed, writing home in the Darwin bush outside his tent, with his feet propped on his improvised bathroom rig...ART21689
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Fortress at Bobonaro
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Bobonaro was at one stage in the guerilla operations against the Japanese in Portuguese Timor, the headquarters of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company.ART26310
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From Oesaoei Ridge
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles William
Depicts a scene of Oesaoei Ridge, near Koepang, Dutch Timor.ART26315
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Gateway at Bobonaro
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The entrance to the Portuguese Posto of Bobonaro in "Lancer Force" when engaged in guerilla warfare against the Japanese in Timor , and being centrally situated in the area of operations, patrols of t...ART26309
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General's house, Same
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Maker: Bush, Charles
A typical Portuguese-colonial stone building occupied by the 2/2nd and 2/4th Australian Independent Companies at various times during their guerilla activities in Timor. During their occupation of the...ART26165
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Group of Timor Guerillas
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts several soldiers, recalling the Australian activities on the island of Timor during the Second World War. Japanese forces invaded both Dutch and Portuguese Timor in February 1942, where a smal...ART26363
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Head of bearded Japanese prisoner (Aohi Katashi)
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Mechanical Construction Unit, the Stoker Aohi Katashi who was a prisoner during the Second World War.ART26606
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Headquarters and cookhouse, Captain Dexter's Platoon
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Occupied by "A" Platoon, 2/2nd Australian Independent Company, commanded by Captain D St A Dexter when the platoon was operating from Same in Portuguese Timor in guerilla activities against the Japan...ART26314
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HMAS "Voyager" wrecked and burning at Betano Bay
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
In February 1942 Japanese forces invaded Dutch and Portuguese Timor, overwhelming the defending forces except for the 2/2nd Australian Independent Company in Portuguese Timor which withdrew into the h...ART26358
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Hospital at Jose da Silva, Fitu Bessie
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Situated in an area of Portuguese Timor in which troops of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company were carrying out harassing raids on Japanese forces. Some of the Australian sick and wounded were treat...ART26169
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House at Tai Bessi
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
It was in this house that a seven-man patrol of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company met Portuguese nationals who were co-operating with the Australians and made full arrangements for the movement of ...ART26320
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Hulk of "Voyager", Betano
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Maker: Bush, Charles
HMAS Voyager became grounded on a sandbank at Betano Bay when landing Australian commando troops on Timor in 1942. It became impossible to shift her, charges were exploded aboard and she was set on fi...ART26325
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In Lautem Province
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Showing the type of jungle in which troops of 2/2nd and 2/4th Australian Independent Companies and "Lancer Force", and in particular, "H" Detachment under Lieutenant C D Doig, carried on warfare of th...ART26351
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Inside hangar at Penfoei
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Maker: Bush, Charles
The skeletal remains of a hangar roof at Penfoei, Timor, showing the damage caused by an Allied bombing shortly before the Japanese surrender. The roof was constructed from local materials, with bambo...ART26316
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Jaime Perdial of Ainaro
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts an head and shoulders portrait of a Portuguese Timor man, Jaime Perdial of Ainaro, who provided medical assistance to Captain C R Dunkley of 2/2 nd Coy in Timor during the Second World War.ART26313
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Japanese ack ack defences, Penfoei
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a Japanese Anti-Aircraft gun, Penfoei, Timor.ART26140
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Japanese awaiting medical inspection
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts several sketches of Japanese POWS awaiting medical inspection, Timor.ART26151
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Japanese beach defence at Namosain
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts the Japanese Defences at Namosan, Timor. Native boats and Japanese barges engaged in ammunition dumping in background.ART26143
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Japanese surrender plane
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
This plane brought the Japanese surrender envoys to Koepang for the signing of the Surrender Instrument. The wheel collapsed immediately after landing.ART26332
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Japanese unloading barges, Koepang
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a scene of Japanese unloading a barge after the surrender in September, 1945.ART26170
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Japanese war criminal stockades, Koepang
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
View of the barbed-wire compound where Japanese prisoners were held pending investigation as to their responsibility for war crimes.ART26145
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Japanese war trial courtroom
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
An officers' mess converted into a court room for the trials of Japanese accused of the murder and ill-treatment of Australians captured by them on the Island of Timor.ART26357
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Japanese wreckage, Penfoei airstrip, Timor
Art
Maker: Thake, Eric
Thake shows Japanese prisoners of war clearing up the wreckage of their own planes at the air strip in Penfoei, Timor. This work is typical of Eric Thake, whose paintings and drawings are finely craf...ART26972
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Koepang Bay
Art
Maker: Thake, Eric
View of Koepang Bay from a Consolidated Catalina flying boat from Royal Australian Air Force, No 43 Squadron; on the day after Japanese in Timor had surrendered. Vessels conveying Australian occupati...ART26791
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Koepang jetsam
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The small steamer in the foreground was towed down from Dili, but is now useless and moves with the tide.ART26334
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Koepang sketch
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicting a scene in war-damaged Koepang, the principal town in Dutch Timor. Koepang was in Japanese hands for most of the war period and suffered from Allied air raids.ART26171
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Koepang street
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
A scene in Koepang after the surrender of the Japanese who had been in occupation of the town for over three years.ART26146
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Lahona crossroads
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
In the area of Portuguese Timor in which the 2/2nd and 2/4th Australian Independent Companies engaged in guerilla warfare against the Japanese during 1942.ART26344
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Lautem province
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The entrance gate to a Portuguese Posto in Lautem Province in which troops of 2/2nd Australian Independant Company engaged in guerilla activities against the Japanese in Portugueses Timor.ART26155
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Lieutenant Colonel William Leggatt
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel William Watt Leggatt (VX44907), MC, Commanding 2/40th Australian Infantry Battalion, 'Sparrow Force'. Taken prisoner by the Japanese.ART26435
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Looking from Bobonaro
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The view looking north for the Residence, Bobonaro. The 2/2nd Australian Independent Company operated extensively in this area in their guerilla activities against the Japanese.ART26160
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Looking towards Tata Mailau, Ramelau Range
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Mount Tata Mailau, one of the high points in the Ramelau Range, is 9,580 feet above sea level. The Range, in Portuguese Timor, was much traversed by 2/2nd Australian Independent Company during their t...ART26350
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Manuberi from Ainaro
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a Portugese Timor man (also called 'Lancer Force'), Manuberi, who assisted the allies , including Australia, in Timor in guerilla activities during the Second World War.ART26154
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Mape
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Showing portion of the bomb-damaged Portuguese 'Posto', or government-controlled agricultural centre, sometimes the headquarters of the Australian forces during the guerilla campaign against the Japan...ART26163
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Mena River Bridge, Timor
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
A section of which was destroyed by units of "Sparrow Force" when the Japanese landed on Timor . The damages section, second from left, can be seen after repairs by the Japanese.ART26318
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M.O. with Japanese sick at Tenao
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
A medical officer of the Allied forces treating Japanese prisoners after cessation of hostilities, Timor.ART26149
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Mt. Paicnau from Cape Lore
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
A scene in the Lautem Province of Portuguese Timor, the district in which "H" Detachment of "Lancer Force", under Lieutenant C.D Doig of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company, did such good work in obt...ART26156
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Munda Perdido from Ossu
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
A view of the Munda Perdido mountains from the town of Ossu, in the east of Portuguese Timor. The Australian commandos of 2/2nd and 2/4th Australian Independent Companies were engaged in this area dur...ART26353
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Observation Post, Hatu Hudo
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
View of an observation post at an industrial plant at Hatu Hudo, a village in East Timor. The 2/2nd and 2/4th Australian Independent Companies fought in this area when waging guerilla warfare against ...ART26324
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Original landing at Usapa-Besar, Timor
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Recalling the Australian activities on the island of Timor during the Second World War. Japanese forces invaded both Dutch and Portuguese Timor in February 1942, where a small Australian force - 'Spar...ART26362
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Panorama of Dili area
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The scene of many of the operations of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company in their guerilla warfare against the Japanese in Timor during the Japanese occupation of the island.ART26319
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Penfoei Drome
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
View of the aerodrome at Penfoei, near Koepang, Dutch Timor. Used by the Royal Australian Air Force prior to the Japanese occupation of Timor.ART26355
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Pilot Officer Douglas McKenzie
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Portrait depicting Pilot Douglas McKenzie, RAAF, observer, gunner, bomb aimer and navigator, seated on a bed in the soldiers encampment Darwin, pulling on his boots.ART21690
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Plantation at Beco
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Beco in south-west Portuguese Timor, was one of the points of which supplies were dropped from the air for the 2/2nd Australian Independent Company by Hudson aircraft based on Darwin. Stores were also...ART26164
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Port Lookout, Lore (Sae)
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
In the Lautem Province of Portuguese Timor, the district in which "H" Detachment of "Lancer Force", under Lieutenant C.D Doig of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company, passed through here on the way fr...ART26157
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Protestant mission used as a hospital by Australian troops, Tjamplong
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Protestant mission used as a hospital by Australian troops, Tjamplong, Timor.ART26150
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Radio room, Mapa
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Mapa was at one stage the Headquarters of Lancer Force during the guerilla operations against the Japanese on Timor in 1942. A radio was manufactured from scraps and odds and ends by Signaller Loveles...ART26349
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Radio station, Dili
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
This radio station was taken over by Australians when the Dutch-Australian Force landed at Dili in 1941. It was later wrecked by Allied aircraft during the Japanese occupation.ART26347
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Remember East Timor; Hadomi Timor rebuild East Timor
Art
Maker: Abadee, Solomon Mackinolty, Chips Ritchie, Therese
'Hadomi East Timor; Rebuild East Timor!' expresses the artists concern that the people of East Timor regain full independence from Indonesia and improved civil conditions and called on Australians to ...ART91195
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Road at Hatu-Udo
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
A village in Portuguese Timor which figured prominently in the operations of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company in their guerilla tactics against the Japanese. It was frequently strafed by Japanese ...ART26311
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Road to Hatu Lia and Atsabe
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The Portuguese 'Posto" at Bobonaro showing the road to Hatu Lia and Atsaba. This 'Posto' figured considerably in the operations of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company in their guerilla operations aga...ART26161
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Same Church at evening
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Catholic Church at Same with Mount Sanaleo in the background. A Japanese plane was brought down near here by Timorese rifle fire. The 2/2nd Australian Independent Company and "Lancer Force" were exten...ART26307
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Same, Timor
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
A scene in the town of Same, in Portuguese Timor which figured considerably in the exploits of the 2/2nd and 2/4th Australian Independent Companies during their guerilla campaign in Timor during the J...ART26326
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Soe church, Dutch Timor
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Situated in the area in which guerilla warfare was waged against the Japanese on Timor by 2/2nd Australian Independent Company and some of the survivors of "Sparrow Force".ART26167
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Strong bow, drawing for cartoon in 'The Daily Telegraph'
Art
Maker: Mahony, Will
Depicts a Japanese soldier aiming a bow and arrow at Darwin. The bow is labelled 'the northern island manace'. It makes reference to the possibility of an invasion of Australia after the wave of Japan...ART90964
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Study for ambush of Japanese tanks
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
An incident during the Australian commando operations in Timor after the occupation of the island by the Japanese, in which three commandos ambushed a Japanese tank in the Gelano Valley, Timor.ART26166
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Study for No.305
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
This is a preparatory study for the painting, 'Ambush at Nunamogue, Timor'. An Australian soldier lays in the grass, with his rifle at the ready.ART26601
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Study for No.305
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
This is a preparatory study for the painting, 'Ambush at Nunamogue, Timor'. It shows an Australian soldier laying down armed with a rifle.ART26598
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Study for No.305
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
This is a preparatory study for the painting, 'Ambush at Nunamogue, Timor'. An Australian soldier lays in the grass, with his rifle at the ready.ART26603
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Study for No.305
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Two soldiers are laying down with rifles at the ready. This is a preparatory study for the painting, 'Ambush at Nunamogue, Timor'.ART26600
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Study for No.305
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
This is a preparatory study for the painting, 'Ambush at Nunamogue, Timor'. Two soldiers are lying on the ground with rifles at the ready.ART26599
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Tenau Submarine Base
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Drawn after re-occupation by the Allied forces following the Japanese surrender, Submarine Base Tenau, Timor.ART26142