The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The three figures in this painting are Ken Connor behind the gun; Phil Saunders this side of the gun; Harold White far side of the gun. Harold White relates: "We had pursued the Japanese from the Shaggy Ridge area down to Bogadgin and went on to capture them in Madang. We entered Madang on 25 April 1944. We were in Madang resting when Henry Hanke painted this work. This is one of three paintings that he did of the 57/60 Battalion". The work depicts a Vickers heavy machine gun crew of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion in their jungle position at Madang, New Guinea, June 1944.
Vickers Mk I* Aircraft Machine Gun. Rectangular steel box section construction with an air cooled fluted barrel jacket that has three rows of nine louvres near the receiver body and a cut out front pa
Painting of a machine gun position and entrenchments on the Somme, France, during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) began art lessons at the age of 9 and on leaving school worked as a cl
Vickers Mk 1 Medium Machine Gun. Rectangular box section construction receiver with a fusee spring cover on the left and cocking lever on the right. Twin wooden spade grips with oil bottles and brushe
This work depicts a destroyed Japanese anti aircraft gun in Madang, Papua New Guinea, accompanied by hand written details of the gun's camouflage.
Maxim MG08 heavy machine gun. This gun is missing the top cover, feed block, flash hider and the bolt mechanism but has an armoured top shield. Painted on the left side in white is 'Captured by the 46
Cricket trophy made from a 6 pounder shell with .50 BMG rounds on either side as handles. The bullets are attached to the shell with extra brass tubing bent into a 'U' shape to create two handles. The
