The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Official war artist George Browning encountered this squirrel in Labuan, Malaysia: "A little black squirrel of a species very common in Labuan. This one was found by the [locals] when a youngster, and tamed. It spent most of its time in the coconut palms, descending a couple of times a day to eat salted peanuts in one or two of the tents in Headquarters, 9th Australian Division camp area."
During the Second World War, George Julian Browning served as an official war artist attached to the Military History Section in New Guinea and Borneo from 1943 until 1946.
This work depicts the site of a hospital that was located on the edge of high cliffs at Labuan. Max (Thomas Maxwell) Newton enlisted with the AIF. He was seconded to the RAAF War History Section as an
Interior view of large British Marquee used as a hospital ward at Labuan during 1945. Soldiers are depicted lying down on hospital beds with a group of recovering soldiers playing cards together. Max
Depicts the wreckage of a bombed building in Victoria Town, Labuan. The wreckage partially reveals the interior of the buildling. A bulldozer works to gather the rubble and fallen masonry for airstrip
The work depicts an LCM boat carrying a GMC (General Motors Corporation) CCKW U.S. Army cargo truck. LCM is an abbreviation for Landing Craft, Mechanised. This design of boat was used extensively in t
Depicts the town of Victoria on Labuan, Borneo, the day after the landing by troops of the 24th Australian Infantry Brigade were entrusted with the task of re-occupying the island as part of the Borne
Depicts the clock tower in Labuan, Borneo. Donald Friend was in Labuan, an archipelago off the coat of Borneo, in June 1945. Of the town of Labuan he wrote in his Diary on 10 June 1945; 'On the starbo
