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| Accession Number | ART31763 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Overall: 77 x 60.8 cm |
| Object type | Painting |
| Physical description | oil on canvas |
| Maker |
Godson, John Barclay |
| Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney |
| Date made | 1956 |
| Conflict |
Period 1950-1959 Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Brigadier William Windeyer
Description
Depicts a portrait of NX396 Brigadier William John Victor Windeyer, CBE, DSO and Bar, MID (x3), joined the AIF to command the 2/48th Battalion during its training and in the siege of Tobruk in 1941, where he was awarded DSO. In 1942 he assumed command of the 20th Infantry Brigade and let it in the Battle of El Alamein. At El Alamein he gained a Bar to the DSO. In the Pacific Windeyer commanded his brigade through the operations at Finschhefen, New Guinea, in 1943 and in the Borneo campaign in 1945. He was appointed a CBE in 1944.
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Places
- Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, Tobruk Area, Tobruk
- Africa: North Africa, Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), El Alamein Area, El Alamein
- Asia: Borneo
- Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney
- Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Officer
- Oceania: New Guinea1
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen, Finschhafen area