The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a troopship in convoy at sea. Mainwaring was sent to New Guinea in May 1943 on probation for appointment as an official artist. Following his return to Australia in October, he completed this work before being sent back to New Guinea a year later as an official war artist.
The scene is of a group of Australian soldiers carrying their dead in blue army blankets and stretchers on board the deck of a torpedoed Landing Ship, Tank at Morobe, Papua New Guinea. One of the ship
A portrait of Squadron Leader Harvey Charlesworth during flight. The artist, Mainwaring, was sent to New Guinea as an Australian Army artist in 1942 and completed many portraits of military personnel
Depicts a portrait of Betty Bown, an Australian Red Cross representative, 6th Australian Division, painted by the official war artist Geoffrey Mainwaring in New Guinea in 1944.
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24
This is one of six drawings purchased from the artist in 1944 prior to Ragless' appointment as an official war artist in 1945. The drawing depicts two men at work repairing aircraft in a hangar at th
Adelaide, SA. 1939. Group portrait of recruits at the Wayville Showground. SX7174 Private (Pte) Ivor Henry Thomas Hele is second from left, back row. Pte Hele sailed for the Middle East with the 2/48t
