The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts two seated soldiers listening to Frank Sinatra on the radio while fighting, shells, bombs and explosions occur in the background behind them. Joseph Francis Garvey (b. 1912) was a commercial artist, cartoonist and illustrator. He enlisted in Victoria in 1940 and served during the Second World War as a Private with the 2/32 Australian Infantry Battalion in northern Australia, Labuan and Morotai until his discharge in November 1945.
Depicts soldier, wearing a tin helmet and shorts standing , surrounded by bombs and explosions, while two of his fellow soldiers cower on the ground in front of him covering their ears against the noi
Depicts a seated Australian soldier, wearing shorts and a tin helmet heating the bayonet on the end of his rifle in a small camp fire, while another standing soldier, holding a rifle and smoking a cig
Depicts a priavte, wearing a tin helmet and shorts, being spoken to sternly by a senior officer, who holds a pair of binoculars. Behind them are a number of other soldiers looking up into the air, sea
Garvey's cartoon self-portrait, from a series of thirty-six pencil drawings made in Syria, Palestine and Lebanon in 1942 of members of 15 Platoon 'C' Company, 2/32 Battalion, Lebanon 1942. Garvey, wit
Depicts a barge on the sea, off the coast at Labuan, Borneo, during the Second World War. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist and illustrator
An Aboriginal figure seated crosslegged. The verso of this page features a study of several seated figures. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartooni