Exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture by Australian Official War Artists

W I L L I AM DARGIE. Corporal James Heather Cordon, V.C. D E NN I S ADAMS. 1. H.M.A.S. Perth. CATALO GUE 6. WI RRAWAYS IN FLIGHT. Oil. Oil. 7. CATAL I NA F LY I NG BOAT. One of the three modern 6-inch gun Oil. cruisers of the Royal Australian Navy, H.M.A.S. Perth did valuable service in the Caribbean Sea in the early weeks of 8. SIKORSKY K I NG F I S H E R AND the war, and subsequently became famous R.A.N.CRUISERS. for her exploits in the Mediteiranean.Oil. She was lost in action against the Japanese in the Sunda Strait on 28th February, 1942. A n Ame r i c a n machine circling H.M. A . S . ' s Australia and Hobart. 2. U.S.S. Chester IN D O C K AT COCKATOO ISLAND. Oil. W I L L I AM DARGIE. 9 . COR PORAL JAMES HEATHER 3. CAMOUFLAGED CORVETTE, GORDON , V.C. COCKATOO ISLAND. Oil. Oil. On the night of 10th July, 1941, at H.M.A.S. Cyrn pie prior to being com- north of Jezzine in Syria, missioned. the advance of a company of the 2/31st Battalion was checked by intense fire from a machine-gun post. Jim Gordon, a 4. H.M.A.S. Warrarnunga. private in the battalion, thereupon crept across the bullet-swept ground and, evad Water Colour ing bursting grenades, reduced the post by killing its four occupants with his One of the Tribal class destroyers built bayonet. This action, for which he at Cockatoo. received the Victoria Cross, completely d e m o r a l i s e d t h e e n e m y i n t h a t sector and permitted the Australians to continue their advance 5. T A K I N G O F F . . Oil. A Boston bomber leaving Richmond air station. 10. A W A T E R P O I N T IN SYRIA. Oil. 3