The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Enamelled steel sign with a white face and blue reverse, hand painted in grey with cartoon images showing troops of the Royal Australian Engineers being pursued by enemy shells. A narrow border has been added to the sign in grey paint, and at the bottom are the words: 'R.A.E. AT WORK PICTURES THAT NEVER GET INTO THE PAPERS', and the signature of the artist 'BLACK'. There is an oval shaped hole 80 mm from each corner.
These signs were made in Tobruk, probably using Italian road signs left in the town, by VX32727 Sapper Thomas George Black of 2/3 Field Company, AIF. Black was an illustrator and commercial artist from Ballarat.
Enamelled steel sign with a white face and blue reverse, hand painted in black, brown and grey. A black band, edged with brown, and located approximately one third of the way down the horizontal sign,
Enamelled steel sign with a white face and blue reverse, hand painted in black with a poem and image of an Australian soldier seated on a box. In a cloud shaped 'vision' by the soldier's head is a col
Improvised Australian sign constructed from three pieces of wood, painted white and supported by batons on the back. '3RD M.G. COMPANY' is painted across the upper plank in black paint with grey shad
Improvised Australian sign constructed of a piece of wood with two small iron tabs, one on each side, with a single nail hole in each to secure the sign to a wall. The sign is painted in the Art Nouve
Improvised sign constructed from a piece of wood with a bevelled edge. A piece of string, used for hanging the notice board, is fed through two holes located centrally at the top of the notice board.
Rectangular black enamelled steel paint box with a large amount of rust on the front and back. The back plate of the paint box has a metal ring attached. Inside, the paint box has a rectangular metal
