b'125880SLAWA DULDIG (nee Horowitz) (1901-1975, Poland, Australia),A Portrait of King George VI in the service uniform of a British Field Marshal,(based on a photograph by Speaight published in the Illustrated London News of 29 June 1940.),oil on board,signed lower right SLAWA DULDIG, TATURA, 1940,52 x 39cm; framed 65 x 53cm.Slawa Duldig was an inventor, artist, interior designer, and teacher. In 1929, as Slawa Horowitz, she patented a design for an improved compact folding umbrella. She was the wife of the modernist sculptor Karl (Karol) Duldig and the mother of Eva de Jong-Duldig, a champion Australian tennis player. Her art works and those of her husband are displayed at the Duldig Studio, an artists house museum in Melbourne, Australia founded by their daughter.In 1938, following the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany, a series of significant human rights violations occurred in Vienna. These included attacks on Jewish homes and businesses, deportations of Jews to Dachau concentration camp, the burning of Viennese synagogues and prayer houses, and the arrests of 6,547 people. As Jewish people concerned by the potential increasing risk of harm, Slawa and Karl Duldig, with their infant child Eva, departed Vienna for Switzerland. In May 1939, the Duldig family arrived in Singapore880as refugees. Karl and Slawa set up an art school and Slawa also found employment in art restoration. With Britain declaring war onthe covering force for the ANZAC landing on 25 April 1915 and Germany, their status as foreign nationals became increasinglyso was the first ashore at around 4:30 am. Ten days after the problematic. In July 1940 they and their baby, Eva, werelanding, a company from the 11th Battalion mounted the AIFs expelled from Singapore as enemy aliens. Transported withfirst raid of the war against Turkish positions at Gaba Tepe. German and Italian internees on the HMT Queen Mary,Subsequently, the battalion was heavily involved in defending they arrived in Sydney, on 25 September 1940. They werethe front line of the ANZAC beachhead. In August, it made detained as enemy aliens in Tatura Internment Camp 3D, inpreparatory attacks at the southern end of the ANZAC position northern Victoria. Karl was released from the Camp on 7 Aprilbefore the battle of Lone Pine. The 11th Battalion continued to 1942 to join the 8th Employment Company (8th.serve at ANZAC until the evacuation in December.A.E.C.). Slawa and Eva remained at the Camp$600800until 14 May 1942. With their reclassification from enemy aliens to refugee aliens on 7 December 1943, Slawa and Karl Duldig settled in Melbourne where they lived for the remainder of their lives.$1,0002,000881Walter C. BELFORD (Captain), LEGS-ELEVEN - Being the story of the 11th Battalion (A.I.F.) in the Great War of 1914-1918, [Perth : Imperial Printing Co., 1940, 1st ed.], 667pp, original green cloth boards with gilt titles, maps, illustrations. Extremely rare.The 11th was the first battalion recruited in Western Australia, and with the 9th, 10th and 12th Battalions it formed the 3rd Brigade. The 3rd Brigade was881879'