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Exhibition Theme - Work

"We did what we could under harrowing circumstances."
- Carl Schaefer, Royal Canadian Air Force

Corvette Galley, Lieutenant Leonard Frank Brooks, 19710261-1081 Glass-blowers 'Gathering' from the Furnace, Mervyn Peake,IWM ART LD 2851 Parachute Riggers, Clark, Ms Paraskeva, 19710261-5679 Sections of buoyancy tank and floating caissons, Sydney graving dock, Herbert McClintock, ART30254 No 1 projectile shop, (Commonwealth Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong), Sybil Craig, ART22141 Working in the snow, Australian Forestry Unit, Scotland, Sheila Hawkins, ART26918 Hull Riveting, Mr. Frederick Bourchier Taylor, 19710261-192 ATS at Work, Rodrigo Moynihan (RA, CBE), IWM ART LD 3630 The Camouflage Workshop, Leamington Spa, 1940, Edwin La Dell (ARA), IWM ART LD 322 The Merchant Navy: The chain-locker, Henry Carr (RA), IWM ART 2590 Private Roy, Canadian Women's Army Corps, Lieutenant Molly Joan Bobak (nee Lamb), 19710261-1626 Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring, Laura Knight (Dame) (RA), IWM ART LD 2850 The billy boy, William Dobell, ART30245 Transport driver (Aircraftwoman Florence Miles), Nora Heysen, ART24393 Weighing Down The Tail, New Brunswick, Flying Officer Moses (Moe) Martin Reinblatt, 19710261-4982 Patients waiting Outside a First Aid Post in a Factory, Ruskin Spear (RA), IWM ART LD 2683

 
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