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A cabbie

Art
Sketch on a leaf torn from a small sketchpad, depicting an Egyptian 'cabbie', Alexandria, standing alongside his transport - a horse. To the right is another sketch of a figure depicted from behind. I...
ART03605.010.001
A Cairo Street

Art
Sketch of a Cairo street. Birds fly overhead as groups of people mill in the street below. A figure in the foreground carries a large sack on the shoulder.
ART03605.009.001
A call from the Dardanelles...

Art

Maker: Burton, H M The Defence Department of the Commonwealth S.T. Leigh & Co. Ltd
This recruiting poster employs the theme of Australians fighting at Gallipoli to encourage men to enlist. A tall strong digger wearing a slouch hat and rising sun badge stands astride the Narrows, one...
ARTV05167
A call from the trenches...

Art

Maker: Unknown Unknown Mullett, Albert J
One of a series of Australian First World War recruitment posters printed in Melbourne by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria. Text only printed in blue ink on a white back...
ARTV04966
A call to arms: your country needs you to-day

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Maker: Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Unknown David Allen & Sons Ltd
British First World War recruitment poster issued by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (poster No. 8). Issued in 1914 it is representative of the simple text only recruitment posters produced at ...
ARTV04933
A camouflage track, Wytschaete Ridge

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Maker: Macqueen, Kenneth
A train track has been covered by camouflage netting. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by the Macqueen family in 2009
ART93947
A captain visiting one of his men, 2nd Field Ambulance

Art

Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Back view of a captain talking with one of his men (figure unseen) in 2nd Field Ambulance, Vung Tau, Vietnam.
ART40429
A captured Japanese naval civilian, Balikpapan

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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Sketched portrait of a captured Japanese naval civilian in Balikpapan, Borneo. The soldier's name, as translated from the Japanese characters written in cursive on the front of this work, is Yataroo I...
ART22445
Accept the challenge: believe you can - and you will

Art

Maker: Unknown Special Air Service Regiment
A recruitment poster for the Special Air Service Regiment. The poster depicts a member of the Special Air Service Regiment and also the regiment's motto ' Who Dares Wins'.
ARTV09187
Accident victim

Art

Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a legless man, a mine victim with a child, who lived under an Army hut in Cambodia. The man lost his legs to a mine when he was a soldier. His body is covered in large circles, created from su...
ART90122
Accroche Wood

Art

Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Drawing depicting the war damage to the Accroche Wood at the Western Front, France. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 with the 10th Fie...
ART03086
ACCS in France

Art

Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts an Australian Casualty Clearing Station (ACCS) in France. Red Cross tents are in the foreground with artillery shells are exploding just beyond them. Nurses and soldiers are in the foreground....
ART13334
A3, Cell 23, Changi POW camp

Art

Maker: Cochran, Richard
Depicts a drawing of A3 cell 23, Changi POW camp. Cpl Richard John Cochran, NX57309, 2/12th Field Coy, Royal Australian Engineers, 27th Brigade-8th Division, was a POW in Malaya during the Second Worl...
ART28907
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
ACF gift socks help when the mud's at it's worst...

Art

Maker: Australian Comforts Fund [AUSTRALIAN] : AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND, [N.D.]
The Australian Comfort Fund (A.C.F) formed in January 1940, worked in conjunction with the Salvation Army, the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A. Its 'comforts' ranged from hostels, clubs and canteens in Aust...
ARTV02491
ACF gives and can keep on giving!

Art

Maker: Unknown Australian Comforts Fund Unknown
Second World War Australian Comforts Fund poster, depicting defence force members reciving gifts from a giant pair of hands. The Australian Comforts Fund was re-established on 9 January 1940. Based on...
ARTV06426
A.C.F. : Give to the comforts fund: The Fund that looks after all the men and Women of Australia's Fighting Services

Art

Maker: Queensland Patriot Fund QUEENSLAND : QUEENSLAND PATRIOTIC FUND : AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND (QLD. DIV.), [N.D.]
An Australian poster depicting a happy soldier being handed a parcel. The words 'Give to the comforts fund' refers to the Australian Comforts Fund (ACF), Queensland division. The Australian Comforts ...
ARTV06096
A chain gang, convicts going to work near Sydney, New South Wales; plate from A Narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies by James Backhouse, 1843

Art

Maker: after Edward Backhouse
A chain gang of convicts being escorted to work by armed soldiers of the British Army, an overseer (civilian) leads the way.
ART19846
A Changi night patrol

Art

Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
Cartoon sketch of an Australian prisoner of war sitting up on his sleeping mat, trying to scare away several bugs that have crept up on him during the night.
ART90378.001
A Changi working party

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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A group of prisoners of war forming a working party, one carrying a fire bucket to provide fire or a light for cigarettes. A Japanese guard walks amongst them. The men not sent to the Burma-Thailand r...
ART25051