Portrait of Bert Hinker by Frank Dunne, circa 1930

Parade at the base, by Frank Dunne, 1914

Lawrence Francis Dunne (1898 – 23 December 1937), generally known as "Frank" but also as "Beau" was an Australian cartoonist, born in

Boorowa Boorowa () is a farming village in the Hilltops Region in the south west slopes of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in a valley southwest of Sydney around above sea-level. The town is in Hilltops Council local government area. H ...

, near

Harden, New South Wales Harden–Murrumburrah is a township and community in the Hilltops Council, Hilltops Region and is located in the South West Slopes, New South Wales, South West Slopes of New South Wales in Australia. Harden is adjacent to both the Canberra reg ...

. While apprenticed as a process-engraver in 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, he and his brother Bill joined the

First AIF The First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) was the main expeditionary force of the Australian Army during the First World War. It was formed as the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) following Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 15 Aug ...

. He served with the 1st Field Ambulance from 1915 to 1919 in theatres as far apart as

Gallipoli The Gallipoli peninsula (; tr, Gelibolu Yarımadası; grc, Χερσόνησος της Καλλίπολης, ) is located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles ...

and

Pozières Pozières (; ) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Geography The commune is situated on the D929 road, northeast of Amiens between Albert and Bapaume, on the Pozières ridge. Southwest of the village on ...

. He joined

Smith's Weekly ''Smith's Weekly'' was an Australian tabloid newspaper published from 1919 to 1950. It was an independent weekly published in Sydney, but read all over Australia. History The publication took its name from its founder and chief financer Sir J ...

in 1928 as staff cartoonist and after the death of

Cecil Hartt Cecil Lawrence Hartt (15 July 1884 – ''c''. 17 May 1930) was an Australian cartoonist and caricaturist. As a wartime artist, he popularised the concept of the Australian digger as independent, easy-going and disrespectful of authority, ...

in 1930, illustrated its ''Unofficial History of the AIF'' pages with similar joke drawings of the Australian "digger". He was in turn succeeded by Lance Mattinson. While at Smith's, he made a notable caricature of the staff artists "''Seeing's Believing'' – Smith's Artists On Parade 30 July 1932" Frank was also a talented painter in oils, despite his being colour-blind – his sons would help him distinguish red from green.

Selected works

National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ...

: :''Portrait of

Bert Hinkler Herbert John Louis Hinkler (8 December 1892 – 7 January 1933), better known as Bert Hinkler, was a pioneer Australian aviator (dubbed "Australian Lone Eagle") and inventor. He designed and built early aircraft before being the first person ...

'' :''Parade at the Base'' (cartoon) :

Seascape showing Melrose's Percival Gull, by Frank Dunne, circa 1930s

''Seascape showing Melrose's Percival Gull'' (painting) :''Banaher's Mate''(1937 painting ) The

Australian War Memorial The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of its armed forces and supporting organisations who have died or participated in wars involving the Commonwealth of Australia and some conflicts involving pe ...

also shows samples of his work.

Publications

''Backless Betty from Bondi'' - poems by

Kenneth Slessor Kenneth Adolphe Slessor (27 March 190130 June 1971) was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences int ...

(illustrations) pub. Angus and Robertson ISBN 0-207-14494-X

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Australian cartoonists 1898 births 1937 deaths 20th-century Australian painters 20th-century Australian male artists Australian male painters {{cartoonist-stub