Portrait, Lieutenant General Sir JJ Talbot Hobbs KCB, KCMG, VD, 1936

The entry at the Australian Army Museum of WA has three significant mementos of the 1934 ANZAC House. Two are leaded glass panels which graced the St George’s Terrace entrance. The panels incorporate the Australian Imperial Force rising sun badge in an art deco style window panel typical of the era. The panels were rescued from the demolition site in 1980 by Honorary League architect, Ken Broadhurst, and held in safekeeping for many years before being donated to the Army Museum. Today they are framed and backlit in the Museum entrance hall flanking the third memento from ANZAC House. The Museum entrance is one of the few places where the large portrait of Lieutenant General Sir JJ Talbot Hobbs KCB, KCMG, VD can be displayed and viewed to full effect. The portrait was painted by Ernest William Buckmaster on a visit to Perth in 1936. Buckmaster (1897–1968) was best known for his stilllives and landscapes but won the first of several Archibald Prizes in 1932 with a portrait of Sir William Irvine. He also served as an Australian war artist during World War II.