The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 performing a surgical procedure in an improvised theatre. The bottom image shows an Australian soldier lighting the cigarette of a Lebanese man. Next to them is a monkey, a man playing a drum and a woman.
recto top image: tank featuring a kind of 'nose art', which is a drawing of an angel holding a Devil's pitchfork with the words 'Hell's Angel' on either side of her. Overhead flies an aircraft. rect
top image: This drawing shows the accommodation huts where officers were housed three to a room. They are pictured sitting at tables and chairs. bottom image: This drawings shows the interior of the
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, "
Two pen, ink and wash sketches on the same piece of paper. In the top image smoke billows from a German plane wreck. In the bottom image, repairs are being conducted on an aircraft and a man stands
The image is of a young woman in flowing oriental robes. The woman has dark hair, arranged in gentle rolls. She wears a blue diadem above her forehead. Her eyes are downcast. She is dressed in lay