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Depiction of the mobile Army newspaper press at Morotai in operation at night. The machine is mounted onto a regular Army truck. Often working until two or three o'clock in the morning the staff, all AIF personnel most of them Middle East Veterans, produced ' Table Tops' for distribution among the troops and returning prisoners of war. From Morotai the papers were sent on to New Guinea and Borneo. NX11810 Major Clifford Cheong (founder of AIF News and later of Guinea Gold and Table Tops) 2/14th Australian Infantry Battalion, is depicted in the foreground with his back to the spectator. This painting was reproduced in a feature on Borneo and Morotai in the 'Australian Women's Weekly', 3 November 1945. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981) was a painter, cartoonist, illustrator and newspaper critic. Working with Consolidated Press, he was appointed a war correspondant and artist. He became renowned for his cartoons signed with his initials, 'WEP'. During the Second World War many of his illustrations were published in the 'Australian Women's Weekly' and on the cover of the magazine. His humourous works conveyed the lives, personalities and conditions under which Australian troops served in Darwin, New Guinea and Borneo. During the Second World War he also contributed cartoons to the Army periodical, SALT. After the war he continued to provide illustrations for books during the 1950s, but mainly concentrated on portrait painting. He won the Archibald Prize in 1958, 1961 and again in 1968 for a portrait of fellow artist Lloyd Rees. From 1974-79 he served as the art critic for the 'Sunday Telegraph' newspaper.
Depicts the troop convoy of ships to the Middle East, heading out of the Heads, Sydney Harbour. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981) was a painter, cartoonist, illustrator and newspaper critic. Working w
A vivid and impressionistic oil sketch bringing to life a field hospital in Northern Australia described as being 'fully under canvas and capable of being moved at a moment's notice'. Several orderlie
Painted by Consolidated press's war correspondent ,Wep, this painting is a depiction of a medical inspection tent at night in Morotai. One of a series of paintings the artist did showing various aspec
Depicts men in a mobile printing press, printing the Army paper 'Table Tops' at Morotai. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist and illustrator.
Depicts an unidentified group of 'off duty' soldiers, one having his hair cut by another, one reading, other soldiers watching barber. This painting was reproduced as the cover of the 'Australian Woma
ATHERTON, QLD. 1943-06-14. THE EDITOR OF "TABLE TOPS", NX11810 MAJOR C. H. CHEONG WHO IS ALSO OFFICER COMMANDING FIRST AUSTRALIAN ARMY PRINTING AND PRESS UNIT, PUBLISHERS OF THE ARMY NEWSPAPER, "TABLE
