The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This is a study for the painting, Group of Timor Guerillas, that depicts several soldiers, recalling the Australian activities on the island of Timor during the Second World War. Behind the group of soldiers is a mountain range. Gridlines have been drawn on the work, showing how the artist has planned the composition. The perspective point starts from the head of one standing soldier. The artist has also used a photograph by Damien Parer for the figures shown in the drawing.
An informal group portrait of members of "Sparrow Force", 2/2 Independent Company, AIF, and Timorese locals with a live crocodile tied to a rod. Locals had carried this crocodile twelve miles as a fri
AUSTRALIAN GUERILLAS IN TIMOR. LT. GERRY MCKENZIE.
Depicts several soldiers, recalling the Australian activities on the island of Timor during the Second World War. Japanese forces invaded both Dutch and Portuguese Timor in February 1942, where a smal
A group of solders at Koepang, Timor, march up a hill, carrying their full kit, rifles and wearing tin helmets. This drawing is a study and is covered in numbered gridlines.
This is a preparatory study for the painting, 'Ambush at Nunamogue, Timor'. An Australian soldier lays in the grass, with his rifle at the ready. The same image has been repeated below the main dra
From 1943-1946 Charles Bush was appointed official war artist in New Guinea and Timor. In Portuguese Timor he sketched portraits of Mozambique and Australian troops during the guerrilla campaign again
Two soldiers are laying down with rifles at the ready. This is a preparatory study for the painting, 'Ambush at Nunamogue, Timor'.
Kevin Connor's drawing depicts the lives lost and ruin to the city of Najaf, Iraq, at the end of the Gulf War in 1991. A man wheeling a wagon in the lower half of the drawing collects charred figures
This is a preparatory study for the painting, 'Ambush at Nunamogue, Timor'. Two soldiers are lying on the ground with rifles at the ready.