The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Shacklers were responsible for preparing wire ropes for forest harvesting. Using a group composition, Hawkins captures the dynamic movement of the expert woodsmen as they manoeuver the felled trees of Scotland's remote forests.
Australian Forestry Units working in Dumfriesshire in Scotland move felled and cut wood which are then loaded onto trucks and transported to the saw mill for further processing. The use of skids or p
A group composition of Australian and British Honduran forestry men felling trees in the remote forests of Scotland during the Second World War. Hawkins heard about the important, but largely unknown,
Depicts felled trees and shelter in the forests of Scotland, where Australian Forestry Units were stationed during the Second World War. Sheila Hawkins visited Scotland on two-weeks' leave from her jo
Depicts members of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force, Royal Australian Engineers, Forestry Units, moving felled logs in the snow. The artist inscribed on the work that this was the workers' "first sno
Depicts Australian prisoners-of-war captured by the Japanese at Singapore, grubbing out rubber trees outside Changi Goal where they were quartered. The timber is used in the camp as firewood and for m
Tents pitched among tall forest trees at Konyu 2 (later known as Malayan Hamlet), prisoner of war (POW) camp on the Burma-Thailand railway where POWs of H Force were imprisoned. H Force was a composit
Tents pitched among tall forest trees at Konyu 2 (later known as Malayan Hamlet), prisoner of war (POW) camp on the Burma-Thailand railway where POWs of H Force were imprisoned. Smoke from a camp fire
