The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A drawing of Allied POWs in the breakfast queue at the transit camp in Bari, on the Italian coast. A guard looks on as the bedraggled men await their daily rations.
Depicting a group of unidentified fitters of No.450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) enjoying a much-needed cup of tea in the snow. Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk are seen in the background of th
Probably SULMONA, ITALY. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT A.H. (HENRY) COMBER RAAF (AN AUSTRALIAN ATTACHED TO 39 SQUADRON, RAF) AT WORK ON HIS PAINTING 'ITALIAN SPRING'. AN ARTIST BEFORE THE WAR, HE PAINTED THIS W
SAGAN. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT A.H. (HENRY) COMBER RAAF (AN AUSTRALIAN ATTACHED TO 39 SQUADRON RAF) (RIGHT) AND FLIGHT LIEUTENANT JOHN RUSSELL (RAF) (LEFT) WITH A PAINTING IN OILS OF RUSSELL BY COMBER. BO
SAGAN. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT A.H. (HENRY) COMBER RAAF (AN AUSTRALIAN ATTACHED TO 39 SQUADRON RAF) (RIGHT), FLYING OFFICER KENYON DFC, (CENTRE) AND FLYING OFFICER R.B. BUCKHAM (BOTH OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN
SAGAN. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT A.H. (HENRY) COMBER, RAAF (AN AUSTRALIAN ATTACHED TO 39 SQUADRON RAF) (LEFT), FLYING OFFICER KENYON DFC, (CENTRE) AND FLYING OFFICER R.B. BUCKHAM (BOTH OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN
SAGAN. A SCENE FROM A PRISONER OF WAR (POW) PRODUCTION OF THE PLAY "ARSENIC AND OLD LACE" AT STALAG LUFT III IN POLAND. THE ELABORATE STAGE SETTING WAS DESIGNED BY FLIGHT LIEUTENANT A.H. (HENRY) COM
402730 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Albert Henry Comber rests (left) while 402379 Flt Lt Colin George Milson (right) prepares to polish his boots somewhere in the Western Desert. Flt Lt Comber enlisted
A pencil drawing of an Australian pilot meeting an old friend just in from the desert cages. POWs caught in North Africa were often transported to several poorly-equipped camps before being transporte
Forty-sixth page of artist's sketchbook with three drawings. The upper drawing 'Off to breakfast 'depicts a group of figures in jeeps travelling along a road way. The middle drawing 'Breakfast' depict
A rapid impression of one of the most familiar and important aspects of army life at Julis camp, Palestine. Depicts a drawing of the open air cookhouse at Julis Camp.
Depicts German prisoners at a camp in Mersa Matruh, Egypt, getting their daily supply of water rations. Several Germans have received their rations and are seated in the foreground whilst many more wa
Depicts three soldiers, two sitting and one standing, around a small brazier preparing breakfast, near Ypres in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front durin
left image: Australian prisoners of war stand in a queue waiting to be served food. right image: View of two helicopter pilots sitting in a cockpit with beer and parachutes as cargo. The captions jok