The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Troops and vehicles under shell-fire, just outside the town of Jezzine (now Lebanon). View from the top of a road winding down to the town below. A truck is parked at the top of the road and hills seen in the distance. This is a sketch for the painting 'The mad mile' (ART27683).
Depicts the 7th Australian Division travelling along a section of the road west of the town of Jezzine in Lebanon, which was accurately ranged along most of its length by Vichy French artillery and m
This sketch comes from a series completed by VX18229, Sergeant Francis George (Frank) Hodgkinson, HQ 7th Australian Division, completed during his time in Syria and modern-day Lebanon as part of Opera
A rough pen, ink and wash sketch for the large painting, 'Moresby picture show'. This sketch shows the rear view of unidentified Australian soldiers wearing ponchos watching a film. In the top left
Depicts a bleak and barren landscape with a road along a ridge. Bunker holes can be seen at various intervals in the side of the ridge face. Along the top of the ridge is a winding road, along which t
A sketch taken from the deserted shell of a shattered town. The only life was supplied by the endless convoys, which choked the coast road and slowly climbed the narrow, winding pass above the harbour
Sketch for painting "Flags of Victory", Melbourne. It is unclear if Bush completed a painting from this preparatory sketch, there is no painting within the National Collection that can be linked to th