The 'piss-a-phone', outside bombed building, Bagram Accession Number: ART91924

Description

The shower and toilet block inside the SAS compound, with an SAS soldier using the 'piss-a-phone', an improvised urinal. Peter Churcher recalled, "The 'piss-a-phone' is outside the bombed building in which the men's bathroom facilities are housed in the Australian compound, Bagram airbase, Afghanistan."

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Accession Number
ART91924
Artist
Peter Churcher
Classification
Art
Object Type
Painting
Physical Description
Medium: oil on hardboard
Measurement
Framed: 23.2 cm x 32.5 cm x 3.7 cm
Unframed: 20 cm x 30 cm
Medium
oil on hardboard
Date Made
22 August 2002
Place Made
Gallery location
Anzac Hall, War in Afghanistan: 2001-2021
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Acquired under official war art scheme 2002
Copyright
AWM copyright

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