The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Cook travelled to New Guinea in 1944; his observations there are the source for this painting. The resting patrol blends into the surrounding vegetation and appears at ease in the jungle. The painting highlights the ability of Australian soldiers to adapt to the unfamiliar environment of the Pacific theatre during the Second World War. This painting was a finalist in the 1945 Art Gallery of New South Wales Sulman Prize.
This work is Kevin Connor's response to what he saw in the aftermath of the Gulf War in Iraq in 1991. Above the remains of charred corpses on a trolley, two imaginary dark figures float ominously in t
Portrait of VX44907 Lieutenant Colonel (later Sir) William Watt Leggatt, DSO, MC, MID, Commanding 2/40th Battalion, 2nd A.I.F also First World War, Western Front. Aileen Rose Dent (1890-1978) was an
This is a portrait of a seated figure of Infantryman VX46436 Captain Edward Harty wearing leather jerkin and other equipment that he wore during his final battle. The painting was entered in the Archi
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel AO, MBE, ARRC, ED (1915-2000) served with the 8th Division’s 2/13th Australian General Hospital. She was the sole survivor of the infamous Banka Island massacre an
Depicts a group of four soldiers laying down for a rest, four are wearing hats and one is holding a pack. This pencil sketch has been drawn on the back of an 'Australian Comforts Fund' and 'YMCA' note
Depicts a perspiring Australian soldier struggling to push a roller along the ground, with marching soldiers and a tent in the background of the scene. Roy George Herbert Fluke (b. 1921) served with t