The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Australian painter known for her portraits. She was regulalry exhibited as a finalist in the prestigious Archibald Prize for portraiture at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. This portrait was her entry for 1949. Dent studied at the National Gallery Art School, Melbourne (1909-1916) and established a studio in Little Collins street. Her works are represented in public colletcions inculding the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, the Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria and the Charles Sturt University Art Collection.
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel William Watt Leggatt (VX44907), MC, Commanding 2/40th Australian Infantry Battalion, 'Sparrow Force'. Taken prisoner by the Japanese.
Informal portrait of William Watt Leggatt. Collection relating to the First World War and Second World War service of 3615 / VX44907 Lieutenant Colonel William Watt (Bill) Leggatt DSO, MC, 60th Batta
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
Portrait of the official war artist Captain William Dargie, which was entered in the Archibald Prize competition 1945, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1946.
2nd Australian Imperial Force, 7th Australian Division; Major-General Arthur Samuel Allen, CB, CBE, DSO, VD, FCA, General Commanding 7th Division. This portrait was exhibited in the Archibald Prize a
Collection relating to the First World War and Second World War service of VX44907 Lieutenant Colonel William Watt (Bill) Leggatt DSO, MC, 60th Battalion and 59th Battalion 1916-1918, 2/22nd Battalion