The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Members of the Civil Construction Corps (CCC) erect camouflage netting and a dummy tree at Menangle, near Bankstown, Sydney. Originally built as a racecourse, Menangle Park was converted into a military base during the Second World War, providing training facilities for troops, complete with an airstrip in the middle of the track. The use of dummy objects as a means of concealment and deception increased as the war progressed. Faithful representations of the real object, some instances involved dummy houses and trees, even fake roads, were intended to disguise army bases and aircraft hangers as civilian farms. Here, the men strain under the weight, their bodies virtually horizontal with the ground, as they hoist a dummy tree into place.
Formed in February 1942, the Civil Constructional Corps (CCC) was responsible for supplying civilian labour on construction projects such as docks, aerodromes, roads, gun emplacements, hospitals, fuel
This work consist of stylized pictograms of the 'Tree of Life' found on Persian carpets and the mihrab from prayer rugs. They have combined together to create a new ideograph that depicts the cloake
Scene of four men working to erect power lines at Sydney Graving. In the background below a group of work around a crane. The four men in the foreground are exerting a large amount of energy though pu
This painting depicts an old tree near the Changi camp gardens under which many of the prisoner-gardeners ate their midday rice. The lush tropical forest of the Malay Peninsula fascinated Griffin. As
In 2012 Tony Albert became the Australian War Memorial's first official war artist to deploy with the Army's Regional Force Surveillance Unit, North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). NORFORCE is a surveil
An important landmark on Artillery Ridge which was taken by 'C' Company, 9th Australian Infantry Battalion, 1944. At the foot of this tree was a Japanese Observation Post (OP) that Australian artiller
