War

German trench art from Victoria


Peter Lane

Australiana, Vol 38 no 1, February 2016

Seldom do prisoner of war trench art objects indicate where they were made. One that does is carved from wood in the shape of continental Australia, with the words and date “Murchison den [the] 24.8.1941” together with a stylised Australian coat of arms.

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