Pilot Officer Rawdon Middleton Accession Number: ART26989

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Portrait of Flight Sergeant Rawdon Hume Middleton VC, RAAF wearing B-type flying helmet, oxygen mask and Ervin jacket. He was promoted to Pilot Officer posthumously. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records Section and he worked here from 1944 to 1945, in Borneo, Noemfoor and around Australia.

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Accession Number
ART26989
Classification
Art
Object Type
Painting
Physical Description
Medium: oil on canvas on hardboard
Measurement
Overall: 70.4 cm x 55.2 cm
Medium
oil on canvas on hardboard
Date Made
1946
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
presented 1956
Copyright
External copyright

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