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Ace of Spades
Art
Maker: Meagher, Julian
Still life of an American Pattern Helmet. This painting is part of a war helmet series that Meagher produced in his continuing documentation of modern day masculinity. It explores men's engagement wi...ART94650
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Ack Ack plotting room
Art
Maker: Baird, John
A sketch of the Ack Ack (Anti Aircraft) plotting room is depicted, showing helmets and military equipment hanging from hooks on the wall, and an Ack Ack chart in the centre.ART27964
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A DEMONSTRATION TEAM FROM 1ST AUSTRALIAN REINFORCEMENT UNIT (1ARU) USED IN TRAINING SOUTH ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
A DEMONSTRATION TEAM FROM 1ST AUSTRALIAN REINFORCEMENT UNIT (1ARU) USED IN TRAINING SOUTH VIETNAMESE REGIONAL FORCE (RF) SOLDIERS. THE SOLDIER IN BLACK PYJAMAS (FRONT) IS LANCE CORPORAL ROSS CARNIE. N...P01358.009
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Adrian Pattern Helmet : Sister D E Duffy, 'Bluebirds', New South Wales Branch, Red Cross Society
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1915 'Adrian' Pattern French Army steel helmet, with the bugle horn badge embossed 'RF' (Republic Francaise) worn by certain regiments of the French Light Infantry on the Western Front. The helmet has...REL24351
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A Field Kitchen
Art
Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts three soldiers wearing tin (protective) helmets and waterproof capes attending a field kitchen (travelling field cooker) in a wet, war-damaged landscape. With the field kitchen, the forepart o...ART92146
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After the battle
Art
Maker: de Kessler, Thomas
Helmeted soldiers walking along a street after battle.ART91473
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[A gathering of soldiers]
Art
Maker: Steinlen, Theophile Alexandre
This work is possibly a depiction of a scene that artist Theophile Steinlen observed while living in Paris during the First World War. The print portrays a selection of seven French soldiers, gathered...ART96201
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Aid post near Doyle's Post
Art
Depicts a soldier walking along a snow covered road, towards the damaged remains of a post, with a gate and road sign nearby. The image was created by Dyson on the 'morning of second Messines offensiv...ART02330
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AIF graves, Lae
Art
Maker: Kingston, Hector
The artist used some of his supply of anti-malarial medication to execute this sketch of AIF graves at Lae. Both are marked with wooden crosses, and illegible inscriptions likely to be their names/ser...ART94216
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AIF Malaya memorial
Art
Maker: Dowie, John Stuart Meridian Sculpture Founders
Statue in memory of the men and women of the AIF Malaya who held up the Japanese advance on Singapore 14 January - 15 Feburary 1942.ART41004
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Air Picquet (Gunner K Thompson)
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The subject of this drawing is 261617 Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth William Thompson, ED. Thompson died on 5 November 2001 aged 77 years (BS). Royal Australian Artillery, 14 Anti Aircraft Battery; Gunner...ART21686
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Air Raid Precaution warden's steel helmet : Chief Warden V R Exton, NES
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
White painted steel Wardens helmet with black painted 'W' at centre front and centre rear. Complete with rubber and vinyl interior liner with webbing chin strap and brass buckle.REL29506
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A JAP PLANE BROUGHT DOWN IN JOHORE. THIS JAP PLANE CRASHES DOWN IN THE JOHORE JUNGLE. A MALAY ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown British Official Photographer
A JAP PLANE BROUGHT DOWN IN JOHORE. THIS JAP PLANE CRASHES DOWN IN THE JOHORE JUNGLE. A MALAY SOLDIER IS LOOKING WITH INTEREST AT THE PILOT'S HELMET.011481
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Albert Bapaume Road, Butte de Warlencourt, March 1917
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
A line of soldiers, ambulances, wagons and horses marching near the Butte de Warlencourt. This ancient mound near the village of Warlencourt, France, lay directly in the German front-line opposite the...ART02176
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Albert Cathedral (Albert Basilica)
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts the ruins of the basilica at Albert, in France, with war damaged buildings in the foreground. Albert was central to the First Battle of the Somme. During the war, the statue of Mary on top of ...ART15470
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Allons-y [To Victory]
Art
Maker: Ministere des services nationaux de guerre
Canadian propaganda poster featuring a cartoon of a beaver, representing Canada, rushing to join a fight with a lion, representing Britain. Both have their swords drawn. This item has been digitised ...ARTV02579
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All quiet on the western front
Art
Maker: de Kessler, Thomas
A barren landscape of guns, crosses, tombstones, helmets and slouch hats.ART91471
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A man
Art
Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
'The First World War left indelible scars on Hilda Rix Nicholas's psyche and her painting 'A man' is imbued with that experience. Rix Nicholas chose a returned serviceman as the model for 'A man'. But...ART19613
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A million pounds a week is the approximate value of salvage in the British Armies in France...
Art
Maker: Hudson, Gerald C Unknown G.P. Ltd.
British First World War poster. It features a central image of three British soldiers collecting discarded German equipment in a captured trench. One of the men fills a sack, stooping to pick up grena...ARTV00832
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AMONG THIS GROUP OF PILOTS NOW OPERATING IN NEW GUINEA ARE MEN WHO FLEW WITH THE FAMOUS RAAF ...
Photograph
Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
AMONG THIS GROUP OF PILOTS NOW OPERATING IN NEW GUINEA ARE MEN WHO FLEW WITH THE FAMOUS RAAF DESERT SQUADRON IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THE OFFICER STANDING ON THE EXTREME LEFT (WEARING A SOLAR HELMET,) IS S...013171
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Anzac. 1915. A trench scene at Gallipoli. (either Russell Hill or Walker's Ridge). The figure ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Anzac. 1915. A trench scene at Gallipoli. (either Russell Hill or Walker's Ridge). The figure standing is Captain Henry Philip (Phil) Fry, a gallant and most popular officer of the 10th Australian Lig...A05401
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Argentan, France. C. 1944-08. German steel helmets and equipment lying by the roadside as Von ...
Photograph
Argentan, France. C. 1944-08. German steel helmets and equipment lying by the roadside as Von Kluge's Army in Normandy retreats from the advancing Allied Forces.SUK12831
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Army mobile selection team visits here
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Army Unknown
A line drawing of the head and sholders of a soldier wearing a helmet in the left hand corner of the poster with text above him. This recruiting poster was used to advertise the time and date of the M...ARTV09096
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A sketch made in France in 1916
Art
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of a soldier, wearing a steel helmet. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to France ...ART19770
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A soldier fixing his bayonet
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
An Australian soldier stands, wearing a tin helmet and is fixing his bayonet to his rifle.ART22008
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A soldier looking up
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Drawing of an unidentified soldier looking up to the sky. He is shirtless and wears shorts and a tin helmet.ART22011
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A soldier wearing a steel helmet and riding a bicycle as a truck and a car burning after a ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
A soldier wearing a steel helmet and riding a bicycle as a truck and a car burning after a Japanese air raid in the yard of a radio station in Darwin. The radio station was damaged in a previous raid ...P02759.010
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At fighter sector
Art
Maker: Baird, John
A portrait of an unidentified Air Force Officer shown wearing a 'pith' helmet.ART27911
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A.T.S.
Art
Maker: Games, Abram H.M. Stationery Office Multi Machine Plates Ltd
British Second World War recruitment poster by Abram Games. In December 1941, the British Parliament passed the National Service Act, which required unmarried women between 20 and 30 to join one of t...ARTV07142
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At sea. c. 1945-09. Aboard the sloop HMAS Swan, somewhere in the Pacific, Japanese prisoners ...
Photograph
At sea. c. 1945-09. Aboard the sloop HMAS Swan, somewhere in the Pacific, Japanese prisoners wearing white helmets work on the crowded deck among RAN crew members. This is probably after the surrender...P01938.004
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At sea. c. 1945-09. Aboard the sloop HMAS Swan, somewhere in the Pacific, Japanese prisoners ...
Photograph
At sea. c. 1945-09. Aboard the sloop HMAS Swan, somewhere in the Pacific, Japanese prisoners wearing white helmets clean the deck. This is probably after the surrender of the Japanese forces. (Donor P...P01938.005
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AT SEA OFF JAPAN, 1945-08-08. THE 3RD DEGREE OF READINESS ABOARD HMAS NIZAM DURING A STRIKE ...
Photograph
AT SEA OFF JAPAN, 1945-08-08. THE 3RD DEGREE OF READINESS ABOARD HMAS NIZAM DURING A STRIKE AGAINST JAPAN. CREW MEMBERS RELAXING BUT HELMETS WERE ALWAYS AT THE READY IN CASE THEY WERE CALLED TO ACTION...121197
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Attack
Art
Maker: Allen, George
Bronze sculpture representing Australian soldiers in New Guinea during WWII. One is holding a .303 rifle and the other an Owen gun.ART41006
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Attack
Art
Maker: Allen, George Purcell, R
Plaster cast of a sculpture representing Australian soldiers in New Guinea during the Second World War. One is holding a .303 rifle and the other an Owen gun. The plaster was cast from the original ce...ART26391
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AUSTRALIA. 1943. A DIVER OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS WATER TRANSPORT GROUP HAS A FINAL PUFF ...
Photograph
AUSTRALIA. 1943. A DIVER OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS WATER TRANSPORT GROUP HAS A FINAL PUFF AT HIS CIGARETTE BEFORE HIS HELMET IS SEALED, PREPARATORY TO HIM MAKING AN UNDER-WATER INSPECTION OF A...029245
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AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE NURSES FROM THE 2/4TH AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL ON BOARD THE ...
Photograph
AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE NURSES FROM THE 2/4TH AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL ON BOARD THE BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIP DORSETSHIRE EN ROUTE TO TOBRUK. LEFT TO RIGHT: SISTERS WATSON, GOODE, JAMIESON AND ...P01348.016
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Australian MK II steel helmet with bullet hole : Private J H Smith, 2/28 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australian Mk II steel helmet, complete with sprung cotton tape chinstrap, brass buckle, and rubber impregnated cotton liner. 'Size 7' is painted in white on the inside of the liner. The liner is miss...REL/14373.001
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Australian (New South Wales) Infantry marching into camp at Souakim
Art
Maker: Unknown
Australian soldiers marching into camp at Souakim, being greeted and cheered by British-Indian troops. On the hills behind the soldiers tents can be seen, and British-Indian soldiers tend small fires ...ART91491
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Australian serviceman
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray
This statuette is a maquette originally made to assist with raising money for the relocation of Ewers 'Australian serviceman' sculpture from the Hall of Memory to the Memorial grounds, showing Ewers' ...ART90406
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Australian serviceman
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray Battaglia & Co, Milan, Italy
This sculpture was initially commissioned for the Hall of Memory in 1954. Leslie Bowles died in 1954 and it was originally he who had designed the proposed statuary to be the feature in the Hall of Me...ART40995
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Australian serviceman
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray Meridian Sculpture Founders
This statuette is the first in a series of a possible edition of 100, which were to be cast for sale through the Australian War Memorial shop. The maquette was originally made to assist in raising fun...ART90837
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Australian soldier
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of an unidentified Australian soldier wearing a tin helmet, Buna, New Guinea, 1943.ART25025
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Australian steel helmet : Lieutenant G L Dolan, 53 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British Army issue Mark I steel helmet painted matte khaki throughout, with sand added to the exterior finish to provide a non-reflective surface. The width of the brim, which is fitted with a steel r...REL32937
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AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, CANBERRA, ACT. 1975-09-30. MR N.J. FLANAGAN, DIRECTOR, AWM ACCEPTS A ...
Photograph
Maker: McJannett, Ray
AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, CANBERRA, ACT. 1975-09-30. MR N.J. FLANAGAN, DIRECTOR, AWM ACCEPTS A DONATION OF WORLD WAR 2 RELICS FROM MR MARKOS POLOOUDAKIS. THE RELICS WILL BE HOUSED IN THE AUSTRALIAN WAR...043489
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AUSTRALIA. 1943. PERSONNEL OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS WATER TRANSPORT GROUP PLACING THE ...
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AUSTRALIA. 1943. PERSONNEL OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS WATER TRANSPORT GROUP PLACING THE HELMET OF A DIVER'S SUIT ON HIS HEAD, AS HE PREPARES TO MAKE AN UNDER-WATER INSPECTION OF A JETTY.029243
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AUSTRALIA. 1943. PERSONNEL OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS WATER TRANSPORT GROUP PLACING THE ...
Photograph
AUSTRALIA. 1943. PERSONNEL OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS WATER TRANSPORT GROUP PLACING THE HELMET OF A DIVER'S SUIT ON HIS HEAD, AS HE PREPARES TO MAKE AN UNDER-WATER INSPECTION OF A JETTY.029244
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Australia, special forces (everywhere, current), Aust flag 2010
Art
Maker: eX de Medici
An Australian Special Forces cutaway helmet, manufactured by South African company, Global Armour. This watercolour was drawn in Canberra from a helmet worn by a member of the Australian Special Forc...ART94355
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Australia, special forces (everywhere, current), digicam 2010
Art
Maker: eX de Medici
An Australian Special Forces cutaway helmet with the digital camouflage pattern of the Australian Defence Force. This type of helmet is manufactured by South African company, Global Armour. This wat...ART94369
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Australia, special forces (everywhere, current), veg pattern 2007, 2010
Art
Maker: eX de Medici
An Australian Special Forces cutaway helmet with a vegetation camouflage pattern. This type of helmet is manufactured by South African company, Global Armour. This watercolour was drawn in Canberra ...ART94370
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BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO. 1945-08-08. SAPPER E.G. PRIOR (2) FITTING THE FACEPIECE TO THE HELMET OF ...
Photograph
BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO. 1945-08-08. SAPPER E.G. PRIOR (2) FITTING THE FACEPIECE TO THE HELMET OF DIVER SAPPER F.E. SMITH WHO IS ABOUT TO DESCEND INTO THE WATER. SAPPER D. O'BRIEN (1) IS LOOKING ON. THE ME...113141
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BARDIA, LIBYA. NO. 5 GUN CREW, 1ST BATTERY, "A" TROOP, 2/1ST FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT. THE CREW ...
Photograph
Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
BARDIA, LIBYA. NO. 5 GUN CREW, 1ST BATTERY, "A" TROOP, 2/1ST FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT. THE CREW COMPRISES SERGEANT PEARSE, BOMBARDIER (BDR) FRANKFORT, GUNNER (GNR) HILLCOAT, GNR O'SULLIVAN, GNR W. K. ...005307
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Battery Commander's dug-out, Hill 60
Art
Depicts two soldiers in uniform, seated in the interior of a dug-out. The one sitting on the right is probably Major R F Manton, DSO, Commanding of 15 Bty, AFA. A lit candle, tins of food and small sh...ART02299.016
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Battery Commander's dug-out, Hill 60
Art
Depicts two soldiers in uniform, seated in the interior of a dug-out. The one sitting on the right is probably Major R F Manton, DSO, Commanding of 15 Bty, AFA. A lit candle , tins of food and small s...ART02299.009
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Battle damaged helmet : Private R P Mallard, 45th Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Brodie combat helmet with battle damage to the top of the crown. The damage consists of an elongated indentation and puncture hole in the outer metal shell of the helmet measuring 70mm long by 25mm ...REL44877
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Battlefield grave of QX8041 Corporal (Cpl) Edward David Donovan, 2/15th Battalion, who was killed ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Battlefield grave of QX8041 Corporal (Cpl) Edward David Donovan, 2/15th Battalion, who was killed in action in Libya on 1 September 1942 during Operation Bulimba. His steel helmet has been left on th...P10220.003
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Battlefield grave of QX11596 Corporal (Cpl) Walter Lagnacourt McIntyre, 2/15th Battalion, who was ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Battlefield grave of QX11596 Corporal (Cpl) Walter Lagnacourt McIntyre, 2/15th Battalion, who was killed in action in Libya on 1 September 1942 during Operation Bulimba. His steel helmet has been left...P10220.002
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Battlefield grave of QX11589 Private (Pte) Norman Francis Bebb, 2/15th Battalion, who was killed ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Battlefield grave of QX11589 Private (Pte) Norman Francis Bebb, 2/15th Battalion, who was killed in action in Libya on 1 September 1942 during Operation Bulimba. His steel helmet, slouch hat and webb...P10220.001
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Battle scene
Art
This painting was completed in Scott's London studio in 1919 and appears to relate to the taking of the Malt Trench in the Somme region by the 28th Australian Infantry Battalion, which occurred at aro...ART03419
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Bayeux soldat II (study)
Art
Maker: Arnold, Raymond
Depicts a figure of a young soldier in yellow, green and dark blue tones, created from gauze like layers of images, a compounded figure, created from the fine warp and weft of printed fabric threads. ...ART92871
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Bayeux soldier I (study)
Art
Maker: Arnold, Raymond
Depicts a figure of a young soldier in brown and black tones, created from gauze like layers of images, a compinded figure, created from the fine warp and weft of printed fabric threads. In 2001, the ...ART92870
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Bayeux soldier IV (study)
Art
Maker: Arnold, Raymond
Depicts a figure of a young soldier wearing a uniform, pack and helmet, in brown and khaki tones, created from gauze like layers of images, a compounded figure, created from the fine warp and weft of ...ART92872
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Bazuel, France
Art
Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts the village of Bazuel, in northern France. It is 4 km south-east of Le Cateau-Cambrésis, and 25 km south-east of Cambrai. The village pictured here has been severely bomb damaged. A German hel...ART02562.021
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Bei Unseren Helden ad Somme [With our heroes on the Somme]
Art
Maker: Erdt, Hans Rudi Hollerbaum & Schmidt
A German First World War propaganda poster that advertises a German film, "Bei Unseren Helden ad Somme [With our heroes on the Somme]". This film was produced in response to the British film "The Batt...ARTV10348
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Be ubiquitous! Gunners go places in today's scientific army
Art
Maker: Unknown
This Australian Army recruitment poster relates directly to the re-establishment of the defence forces into the Pentropic Division of organisation. The Pentropic Division was formally announced and i...ARTV10127
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Be up to date Be a U.S. Marine
Art
Maker: Rogers, William Allen
First World War U.S. Marines recruitment poster depicting a marine putting on a modern helmet as he looks over the battlefield. His old campaign hat hangs below him on a barbed wire fence post and his...ARTV00109
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Bill tries the cat
Art
Maker: Vasco, Louis
A depiction of a soldier from the shoulders up. His moustache is enlarged, and he frowns, appearing sad. A cat with a bandaged paw sits on and is tethered to the helmet the soldier is wearing. This ...ART90478
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Boy in a helmet
Art
Maker: Counihan, Noel
The drawing 'Boy in a helmet' is one of a series of paintings, drawings and prints dealing directly with the war. In it the artist expresses his vision of the implicit violence and dehumanising conseq...ART45036
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Breakfast at Ypres
Art
Depicts three soldiers, two sitting and one standing, around a small brazier preparing breakfast, near Ypres in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front durin...ART02314
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BRISBANE, QLD. 1945-02-21. PRIVATE B M WEBB, (1), HAS HER STEEL HELMET ADJUSTED BY PTE I V TESCH, ...
Photograph
BRISBANE, QLD. 1945-02-21. PRIVATE B M WEBB, (1), HAS HER STEEL HELMET ADJUSTED BY PTE I V TESCH, (2). MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY MEDICAL WOMEN'S SERVICE, THEY AWAIT EMBARKATION FROM FRAZER'S PADD...087008
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British Army Helmet left on grave at Bullecourt
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Steel British Army Helmet, heavily rusted and missing large sections due to shrapnel damage.RELAWM00515.002
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British Brodie steel helmet : Sergeant W E Brown VC DCM, 20 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British Brodie steel helmet. Remnants of grit textured finish visible. Faint red triangles painted on front and rear . Small red 'X' on right hand side. Dent on front of dome and rim.REL/00985.001
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British MK II steel helmet : Lieutenant H R Syme, Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British MK II steel helmet. The helmet is stamped into shape from sheet metal and has a rolled edge of sheet metal around the brim to cover the sharp edges. Inside the helmet, the liner is attached to...REL35407
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British officer's foreign service helmet
Heraldry
Maker: Hobson and Sons
British army officer's foreign service helmet. The cork helmet is covered with khaki cotton drill on the outside and fine green cotton on the inside. It is complete with a brass ventilator button and ...REL/06675
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British pattern steel helmet
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Khaki painted British pattern steel helmet. The inside of the helmet is padded with foam rubber and has an adjustable cotton chin strap. The chin strap is marked with the name 'D SELLARS' and an illeg...REL30326
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Bullpup
Art
Maker: eX de Medici
This F88 Steyr is part of a continuing series of works where de Medici distinguishes rifles as a 'species'. A weapon is overlaid with the microscopic structure of a moth. The scope of this Steyr featu...ART94228
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the War Graves ...
Photograph
Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the War Graves Commission survey party. This group's task was to locate POW cemeteries and grave sites along the Burma-Th...P00761.048
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Burning petrol dump near 7 mile drome
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Three Australian soldiers are pictured in the foreground with a burning petrol dump billowing black smoke near Jackson's Drome, Port Moresby, New Guinea.ART21312
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Calcutta, India. c. October 1945. After being identified with all phases of the aerial war in ...
Photograph
Calcutta, India. c. October 1945. After being identified with all phases of the aerial war in Mountbatten's South East Asia Command, the first large draft of RAAF aircrew to leave since Japan's capitu...SEA0287
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Calling for guard
Art
Maker: Walker, Ralph
Two unhappy looking figures dressed in long coats and hard hats stand for calling for the guard.ART29104
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Camouflage and fieldcraft - prepare for battle (Battle drill)
Film
Maker: Army Kinematography Services Directorate of Army Kinematography
A British Army military training film made at the School of Infantry produced for the Directorate of Army Kinematography by Army Kinematography Services (AKS). Shows how to elimiate the three elements...F02501
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Camouflage net
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a portrait of an unidentified soldier wearing a protective helmet (tin hat) with camouflage netting.ART21305
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Captured German material
Art
Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
Capture German material by the 56th Battalion.ART03570
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Cartoon for Major Mollard's (2/24 Battalion) Story of Attack, Battle of El Alamein
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Several soldiers lay wounded in the foreground, while in the background a line of armed Australian soldiers advances forward. This is a sketch for the story, as told by Major K. F. Hollard, DSO, of ...ART26203
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Casualty
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
This work shows three unidentified soldiers, two assisting a third who has been wounded. This work was reproduced in the Australian War Memorial publication 'Khaki and Green' in 1943 with the title '...ART25494
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Casualty
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts an Australian soldier holding the dead body of a fellow soldier in a barren, war damaged landscape, in the foreground. Behind him are other soldiers and a cloud filled sky. Frank Crozier (1883...ART02170
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C. 1940-09. GROUP OF MEMBERS OF AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE (AANS) ABOARD 2/1ST AUSTRALIAN ...
Photograph
C. 1940-09. GROUP OF MEMBERS OF AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE (AANS) ABOARD 2/1ST AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL SHIP MANUNDA, ALL WEARING HELMETS, AND ONE WITH A GAS MASK. (DONOR A. WHEELER)P01100.005
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Climbing mountains in a flak jacket and helmet is hot work for Private John Sandry of Richmond, ...
Photograph
Maker: Fairley, John Geoffrey
Climbing mountains in a flak jacket and helmet is hot work for Private John Sandry of Richmond, NSW. His unit, C Company of 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), was sweeping through a ...FAI/70/0118/VN
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Cobbers
Art
Maker: Anderson, Wallace
This sculpture depicts two Australian infantrymen. One is standing about to throw a grenade, while the other kneeling with his rifle in both hands. This is a bronze version of the original plaster v...ART41002
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Collection relating to the service of 1512, 1578, VX55289, V7592, V24239 Charles James (Nobby) Clarke MM DCM, 14th Battalion.
Photograph
FRANCE, 1916-17. AN AUSTRALIAN HELMET HANGING FROM A TREE NEAR THE FRONT LINE.P00308.004
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Combat helmet : Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, Special Air Service Regiment
Heraldry
Maker: Ops-Core
Ops-core made 'FAST' model combat helmet fitted with a forward mount for 50/50 Night Vision Goggles (NVG). The helmet has a large khaki coloured velcro patch fitted across the top of the crown, on th...REL46286.001
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Combat helmet with camouflage netting : Private R J Barry, 6 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
American M1 combat helmet with nylon inner, marked in texta '2788438 RICHARD BARRY'. Fitted with cotton chinstrap and inner support, with leather headband. Exterior fitted with a camouflaged cloth hel...REL34953
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Coming out at Hill 60
Art
Depicts members of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 4th Division, in full kit walking along duckboard tracks over trenches, in a war damaged landscape. This image was reproduced in 'Australia at War...ART02273
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[Company awaiting relief]
Art
Depicts the 2nd Division, 22nd Battalion, a group of soldiers, most standing, one sitting on rock near Ville-sur-Ancre. The company of soldiers, wearing helmets and carrying packs, await relief. Will ...ART19603
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Coomalie Creek, NT. 1943. A group of pilots of No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) ...
Photograph
Maker: Department of Air
Coomalie Creek, NT. 1943. A group of pilots of No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) Squadron RAAF stand in front of a Lockheed Lightning aircraft. Left to right: Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Coli...NWA0566
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Crested china pith helmet : First World War
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
China souvenir in the shape of a pith helmet. On one side is the coat of arms for the city of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.REL23606
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Cuirassier officer's breastplate (cuirass) : French Army
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Cuirassier officer's breastplate (cuirass). Nickel plated steel body comprising of a front and back piece attached by leather straps around the waist and leather and brass straps on both shoulders. At...RELAWM12869.001
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Cutaway combat helmet
Heraldry
Maker: Global Armour
Cutaway helmet fitted with a forward mount for Night Vision Goggles and rear counterbalancing weights. A nylon webbing strap is looped between these two points to which is fitted a TAG infra-red strob...REL46519
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Darwin, NT. 1943-12. RAAF Nursing Service Senior Sister Joan Kelly of East St Kilda, Vic, ...
Photograph
Maker: Department of Air
Darwin, NT. 1943-12. RAAF Nursing Service Senior Sister Joan Kelly of East St Kilda, Vic, carrying her tin helmet as she leaves the hospital ward for a rest in the nurses' lodge at a hospital in the N...NWA0517
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Destroy this mad brute: enlist
Art
Maker: Hopps, Harry Ryle [S.L.] : U.S. ARMY, [N.D.]
American poster depicting a girl being carried away by a gorilla wearing a German helmet and carrying a club. The poster was one of the most effective forms of communication to the public at large dur...ARTV01195
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Diary of Gordon Colin Cooper, 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Cooper, Gordon Colin
Diary relating to the First World War service of 475 Private Gordon Colin Cooper, 1st Light Horse Regiment. In this diary, written between 1 January 1918 and 23 November 1918, Cooper records his servi...RCDIG0000905