The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts an unidentified surgeon, anaesthetist, assistant (all from the Australian Army Medical Service) and patient preparing for a surgical procedure in a field hospital, New Guinea. Dargie noted, "This sketch was painted more or less unseriously from one of the 'freak' photographs sent to Capt Nicholson. It is done in a slightly 'Dobellish' technique, but the proportions of the figures have not been sufficiently exaggerated. Perhaps I shall do another of the same sort but more so, before I leave this week, to show that even such a dull realist as myself can distort as well as the next man if he wants to."
The top image is dated 8 January 1942 and was drawn in Beirut. It shows a scene from the 2/3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, where a surgeon, assistant and anaesthetist (all unidentified) are p
Depicts an aerial view of the Hospital and surrounding buildings in Vung Tau during the Vietnam War. The image was painted by Dr. J Scott-Findlay, a doctor in Canberra, appointed surgeon at the 1st Au
One soldier is playing a guitar, while three others sit around him singing along. This is as sketch of members of the 2/10th Australian Infantry Battalion after a long climb up the mountains to Casey
Panoramic, reconnaissance sketch of Bapaume on the Western Front from Stormy Trench, near Gueudecourt, Northern France. Clusters of trees appear on the hills in the background. Benson recounts the rec
William Dargie was commissioned to paint the portrait 'Corporal Jim Gordon' [5900231 (WX2437)], shortly after Gordon was awarded the Victoria Cross. Born in Western Australia in 1909, James Gordon, a
Robert Cooper served in Afghanistan 2010-2011. He was deployed as an ASLAV gunner with 2 Cavalry Regiment as part of MTF-2 (Mentoring Task Force – Rotation 2), based in Uruzgan Province. While on de