The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This drawing was created as a cartoon for Active Service, AWM, 1941. Two diggers discuss the type of Middle Eastern women that capture their interest. The work is set out in three rows, with the image of the head and shoulders of the two men depicted on the right above the main body of the work. They are appear in uniforms with slouch hats.
Row 1. On the left is a woman in a burka and on the right is a robust woman in Arabic dress carrying a bundle of straw on her head and smoking a pipe.
Row 2. On the left is a shapely woman in Arabic robes who is carrying a large water jar on her head. On the right is a strong bodied woman wearing trousers and a shirt who is breaking rocks with a pick axe.
Row 3. On the left is a fashionable young woman wearing a dress, head scarf and high heeled shoes with bows at the ankle. Pictured on the right are two Australian service men wearing shorts and slouch hats. The men are sitting at a table drinking, beside them are two beautiful young women in bathing suits. The brunette woman is wearing a dark suit and is standing beside the blonde in a light suit, who is sitting on her towel on a stone wall.
This drawing was created as a cartoon for Active Service, AWM, 1941. This image has three rows of illustrations. From the left the first row depicts an man in Arab clothing riding a donkey, followed b
This work is a cartoon consisting of three rows of illustrations. At the top there are two servicemen wearing tailored uniforms with forage caps who are talking animatedly to a third soldier in a simi
A woman in a dress and high heeled shoes is held by a man in a civilian suit. The scene appears windy as her long hair is swept to the side. they are on a hill over looking an industrial city with hig
An artillery soldier is seated at a railway station flanked by two women in conversation. The woman on the left of the soldier is wearing the uniform of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) whic
British First World War poster issued to recruit women for fruit picking. It features a three-quarter length portrait of a woman wearing a red dress and carrying baskets of fruit on both arms position
Five men are sitting in a row, with three wearing hats. There are two portraits above of two soldiers who both wear hats.