The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Artist's notes: " This watercolour has to be done again or turned into an oil. The paper used was procured in Paris just prior to the war. It was spotless until the application of watercolour which immediately brought out blemishes because of the moisture. However, I carried on and gathered sufficient note to depict the flour-like clouds of dust that menaced the efficiency of the Akyab dry-season airfield. The tree dominating the picture is a mango variety and it is evident that the Japanese driven from the area had whittled it down for fuel and general timber. Dakotas are seen parked about the powder-strip. Two [local] water carriers are also seen. The billowing clouds of dust have been responsible for several fatal flying accidents and the strips have to be damped down and kept damp by the use of water brought from the nearby river".
Showing the officers' messing tents and home-made oil-and-water drip stove of No. 194 Transport Squadron, Royal Air Force, Akyab. Of the stove Hodgkinson noted that they '...belched oily acrid smoke a
James Wieneke (service no. QX28273) completed this watercolour in 1945, while still a serving soldier. It shows members of the 6th Engineers filling up trucks from above ground water tanks. This was
This film concerns No 136 Squadron RAF (No. 165 Wing) at Rumkhapalong, Arakan. Flying Spitfire VIII, their work is chiefly interception, coupled with escort and reconnaissance duties, They are known a
Two ancient hot-water services standing in a village near two buildings, smoke billowing out of the chimneys on each water stand. A single telegraph pole is seen in the centre background. A seated man
Shows Flying Officer Garnet Burns (426740), navigator serving with 194 squadron, the Royal Australian Air Force, seen taking a bath outside his tent. In the background are fixtures he has salvaged fro
A small watercolour study of buildings within Stalag Luft III in Sagan, Germany. The subject matter of this work is similar to 'Cookhouse, Stalag Luft III, Germany' (ART28574), and so is likely to al