The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
HYLAND BAY, NT. 1978-10-22. REMAINS OF LOCKHEED HUDSON OF NO 2 SQUADRON RAAF PHOTOGRAPHED 1978-10. BY AIRCRAFT FROM RAAF DARWIN. THE AIRCRAFT PILOTED BY FLIGHT LIEUTENANT A. SHARPE DFC WAS ONE OF A FORMATION CARRYING OUT A BOMBING MISSION ON PENFUI NEI TIMOR. IT WAS HIT NEAR THE TIMOR COAST SHORTLY BEFORE REACHING THE TARGET AND FORCED TO RETURN ON ONE ENGINE. UNABLE TO REACH BASE, THE AIRCRAFT WAS DITCHED IN HYLAND BAY NEAR THE PORT KEATS ABORIGINAL MISSION SOME ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILES FROM DARWIN. THE CRASH LANDING WAS REPORTED WITHIN MINUTES BY THE MISSION AND INVESTIGATIONS BY ANOTHER HUDSON AIRCRAFT LOCATED THE CREW ASHORE WITH A LARGE GROUP OF NATIVES ON WALKABOUT FROM THE MISSION. A WEEK LATER THE CREW WERE RESCUED BY THE RAN.
One of the Milne Bay locals in the lakatois (outrigger canoes) in which he and others rescued the crew of Lockheed Hudson A16-245 after they were forced to ditch the aircraft in Milne Bay approximatel
Depicts two Timorese women, Dalila and Maria, washing clothes in Dili, East Timor. Sharpe was fascinated by the activities of the women in East Timor. This is a page from the large sketchbook no. 2. S
View of Koepang Bay from a Consolidated Catalina flying boat from Royal Australian Air Force, No 43 Squadron; on the day after Japanese in Timor had surrendered. Vessels conveying Australian occupati
Australian soldiers sleeping on camp beds on the deck of HMAS Jervis Bay en route to Dili, East Timor. This is a page from the large sketchbook no. 2. Sharpe produced 4 sketchbooks of drawings while i
Darwin. c. 1943. Eight North American B25 Mitchell bomber aircraft fly over the coast near Darwin. Note the aircraft are all carrying Netherlands East Indies (NEI) registrations and markings. The airc
Depicts the artist Wendy Sharpe, Private Cameron Simpson and an unidentified soldier 'on patrol' near Suai, East Timor. `Virtually all my work is narrative, though not always as obviously as the work
