Art
The Australian War Memorial has approximately 38,000 works of art, from paintings, posters, and digital works, to mosaics, textiles, and sculptures. Below is a selection relating to Second World War experiences in Europe and North Africa.
Sydney – Bartolomeo Colleoni Action, 19 July 1940,
by Frank Norton
Tobruk diorama
by Raw Ewers
Bardia (Action Leading to the Fall of Post 11)
by Ivor Hele
D-Day, 0300 Hours, Interrogation Hut, Warrant Officer George Lindenberg
by Stella Bowen
View the online exhibition Stella Bowen: Art, love and war
Rear Gunner, Halifax Bomber
by Dennis Adams
Keep Calm and Carry On
a poster from the Ministry of Information
Read more about this iconic poster here.
Berlin
by Colin Colahan
617 Squadron Raid on the Mohne Dam, 16 May 1943
by Frank Wootton
SS Troops Unloading the Death Wagon, Belsen
by Alan Moore
Read more about Alan Moore and the Holocaust here.
Psycho, Heidelberg Military Hospital
by Albert Tucker
Greece
by Lyndon Dadswell