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Cecil Lawrence Hartt (15 July 1884 – c. 17 May 1930) was an Australian cartoonist and caricaturist.As a wartime artist, he popularised the concept of the Australian digger as independent, easy-going and disrespectful of authority, with a sardonic attitude to life.
In 1917 he was finally granted permission to accompany the Australian Imperial Force to record the activities of its soldiers and thus became the first Australian official war artist. The Australian War Records Section was created in 1917, largely as a result of lobbying by Bean, to implement the Commonwealth's war art scheme, and ten ...
The Battle of Sungei Koemba (27 May – 12 June 1965) took place during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation.Involving Australian and Indonesian troops, the battle consisted of a series of ambushes launched by the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR), along the Sungei Koemba river in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo).
Evelyn Owen, c. 1941. The Owen gun was created by Australian Army private Evelyn Owen in 1931, who finalised the design in 1938, when he was around 23. [4] Owen submitted the design to the Australian military, but was rejected, as they were waiting for the British Sten to finish development. [5]
Harold Septimus Power, usually known as H. Septimus Power or H. S. Power (31 December 1877 – 3 January 1951), was a New Zealand-born Australian artist, who was an official war artist for Australia in World War I.
Media in category "Images from the Australian War Memorial" The following 59 files are in this category, out of 59 total. 3RAR soldier FSB Andersen SVN 1968 (AWM THU680128VN).jpg 450 × 304; 48 KB
Cedric Bassett Popkin (20 June 1890 – 26 January 1968) was an Australian soldier considered most likely to have killed "The Red Baron" according to original research and forensics done by Dr M Geoffrey Miller “The death of Baron Manfred Richthofen: Who fired the fatal shot?” in 1998 (Journal and Proceedings of Military History Society of Australia). [1]