The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Portrait of an unnamed New Guinean man carrying a stretcher. The work was drawn in New Guinea by Australian soldier NX66736 Private Thomas Henry Morgan while he was in hospital recuperating from wounds. Private Morgan was subsequently killed in action in New Guinea on 19 August 1943 serving with the 2/3rd Infantry Battalion. The work was displayed in an exhibition of soldier art organised by the American Red Cross in 1943 (the first "Red Cross Allied Servicemen's Art Show"). The show was mounted in New Guinea and toured to Australia, where this work was voted 'first choice' by visitors to the Sydney exhibition.
An art show of pictures painted by Australian and United States troops in New Guinea broke attendance records. The show was sponsored by the United States Red Cross and was attended by over 30,000 civ
Watercolour portrait of a boy wearing a hat. Sidney Fort enlisted with the army during the Second World War in 1941. Serving mostly in New Guinea and Indonesia, he also spent some time on the home
LAE AREA, NEW GUINEA, 1945-08-04. THE FANCY WORK SECTION AT THE ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION HELD IN THE RED CROSS SOCIETY HUT, 2/7 GENERAL HOSPITAL.
LAE AREA, NEW GUINEA, 1945-08-04. THE FANCY WORK SECTION AT THE ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION HELD AT THE RED CROSS SOCIETY HUT, 2/7 GENERAL HOSPITAL. BOTH HOSPITAL STAFF AND PATIENTS PLACED ENTRIES IN T
Mathias Kauage (1944-2003) was a leading figure in contemporary Papua New Guinean art. One of a group of artists who were working in Port Moresby between 1969 and 1974, Kauage began experimenting with
LAE AREA, NEW GUINEA. 1945-08-04. MAJOR GENERAL B.M. MORRIS, GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING ANGAU (1) AND MAJOR GENERAL V.A.H. STURDEE, GOC FIRST ARMY (2), ATTENDING THE ARTS AND CRAFT EXHIBITION HELD AT
