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| Accession Number | ART90418 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | framed: 73.5 cm x 65.8 cm x 5.3 cm |
| Object type | Painting |
| Physical description | oil on canvas |
| Maker |
Westwood, Bryan |
| Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney |
| Date made | 1990 |
| Conflict |
Period 1990-1999 First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
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Cecil (Jack) Hazlitt
Description
Jack put his age up to enlist in 1915 and arrived in Gallipoli as a signaler with the 28th Battalion. He went to France in 1916 and joined the Signals Company of the 4th Division. He was severally shell shocked on a signal assignment and repatriated back to Australia in 1917. Jack was trained as a pilot but later failed to pass a health test. He was one of the first employees of Qantas Airways in Queensland as a ground engineer and worked in the same capacity for the Australian Arial Service in New South Wales. Depicts a portrait of Sapper Cecil (Jack) Hazlitt on pilgrimage for the 75 anniversary of the Landing at Gallipoli.