The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Official war artist, William Dargie wrote of this work: "Through a jungle pool of mud which almost covers the catepillars of the tractor, logs of timber are dragged to the sawmill. The American Command took rather a lean view of the RAAF habit of going so far outside the perimeter to gather their logs. Something was said about interring with lines of fire. However, it would have been very difficult if not impossible to get the required timber elsewhere, and it was wanted urgently for the construction of bridges, an oil pipe-line jetty, huts, etc. Most of the personnel of 10 Works Sawmilling Unit were men who had had experience of timber work before the war".
Three men from the 2 Australian Imperial Force cutting rubber tree logs with an axe for firewood. Providing firewood for the camp was one of the main activities for the prisoners, as without wood ther
40th page in a sketchbook of 42 pages of pencil drawings, diary entries and artist's notes. Study for the drawing '"Jack" Daniels' (ART91787). It is a portrait of one of the older, and more experience
Sketch of soldiers from the 2/10th Australian Infantry Battalion hiking up a mountain. Dargie noted: "After staging at Kesawai for the night, the battalion set off at first light next day to climb Fe
'The promotion' is the winning work from the Australian War Memorial’s Napier Waller Art Prize 2022. This is the forth iteration of the Prize which is open to former and current Australian Defence Fo
A Second World War recruitment poster for the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) featuring a three-quarter length depiction of a woman dressed in the uniform of a WRN set against a blue sea and horizo
John Reynolds created a multi-layered etching in response to his extensive reading on New Zealand military history and Richard Flanagan’s then recently published novel The narrow road to the deep nort
