Officers Celebrating Peace Balikpapan _ Australian War Memorial
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Officers celebrating peace
Image copyright: Copyright expired public domain, This image is in the Public Domain
ID number ART23274
Title Officers celebrating peace
Collection Art
Object type Drawing
Artist Friend, Donald
Place made Borneo
Date made 1945
Medium pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
Measurement sheet: 32 x 44.8 cm [irregular]; image: 32 x 41.8 cm [irregular]
Description
Seven officers are shown celebrating peace in the No 1 Tactical Air Force Headquarters, Balikpapan,Borneo. The participants are left to right: Wing Commander K Ranger, Flight Lieutenant L A Booth, FlightLieutenant C Coutts, Squadron Leader P G Richens, Squadron Leader J E McCale, Lieutenant D Friend(the artist) and Squadron Leader S F Hickson. Balikpapan in Borneo in the Netherlands East Indies is nowknown as the Kalimantan province of Indonesia.