The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A sketch of the damaged caused by bombardment of Labuan, before the 24th Australian Infantry Battalion landed on 10 June 1945. The Clock Tower remains standing amongst the rubble, and Australian soldiers appear to assisting with the clean up. The artist has inscribed different sections of the drawing with the colour notes, such as 'burnt umber', and 'grey brown'.
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
Sketch of a clock tower with artist's notes regarding colours and proportions of the tower.
Drawing of the clock tower at Victoria Town, Labuan, which was one of the three surviving structures after the Japanese evacuated the town in 1945. Writing for the Australian Women's Weekly of his tra
On his last assignment as war correspondent Wep was sent to Borneo. This painting depicts Victoria Town, Labuan Island. Visible are some damaged buoys and the only two buildings and a clock tower to s
Sketchbook of 35 leaves (two leaves removed), containing lists of oil panels and drawings executed in Gallipoli and Palestine 1918-1919 in the Memorial collection. There are 8 pages of incomplete penc
Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'A ruined house', the fourth illustration in a book of poems by British poet and novelist Richard Aldington (1892-1926), published by Beaumont Press, London
