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AIF cemetery, Changi, early days
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Graves with wooden crosses in a jungle clearing, AIF cemetery, Changi, Singapore, in the early days. From a small space cut out of the jungle, the cemetery was gradually extended and laid out with gre...ART24494
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AIF cemetery, Changi: front entrance
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Griffin shows the entrance path to the AIF cemetery, with gardens and trees on either side. The AIF rising sun symbol strung on two poles at the path entrance.ART26477
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AIF cemetery, Changi: interior
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
In this cemetery are buried all the AIF prisoners-of-war of the Japanese who died in captivity in Changi Goal, Selerang. When this was drawn there was a great difference between the first start of the...ART26478
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Brigadier K Torrance
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
British Brigadier K S Torrance, OBE, MC, General Staff CommandART26426
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Chief Shipwright Alfred William Robinson
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Portrait of ex-Chief Shipwright Alfred William Robinson DSM, RANR ON 10635, Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Australia.ART27506
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Colonel A Derham
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Colonel Alfred Plumley Derham (VX13486), MC, ED, Assistant Director Medical Services. He had served in the First World War. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at Singapore, 19...ART26429
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Colonel Edward Holmes
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of British Lieutenant Colonel Edward Barclay Holmes, MC, commander of British and Australian troops, after the departure of General Percival from Changi in August 1942.ART26430
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Colonel Wilfred Kent-Hughes
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Colonel Wilfred Selwyn Kent-Hughes (VX26600), KBE, MVO, MC, MID, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General of the AIF 8th Division. Kent-Hughes served as a member of the 7 Infantry Battalion in the...ART26205
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Corporal Geoffrey John Walter Bingham
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Corporal Geoffrey John Walter Bingham (NX51770), DCM, 8 Division signals. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at Singapore. Bingham was awarded his Distinguished Conduct Medal...ART26453
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Durian tree, Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This painting depicts an old tree near the Changi camp gardens under which many of the prisoner-gardeners ate their midday rice. The lush tropical forest of the Malay Peninsula fascinated Griffin. As...ART24468
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Fighting on the edge of a jungle mangrove swamp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a group of unidentified soldiers fighting at edge of jungle and mangrove swamp in the defence of Malaya and Singapore.ART26528
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Finis
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
1945-6; sketch for tailpiece of book, showing chained man bursting links of chain.ART28404.009
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Guns at Mandai, 5th February, 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing "F" Troop, 60 Battery, 2/10th Australian Field Regiment firing its task at 1500 hours. The picture also shows the type of country and native dwellings, Malaya. Work depicting action at Mandai ...ART24499
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Japanese guards buying vegetables, March 1945
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This composition depicts the Japanese guards from the prisoner-of-war camps in Changi area purchasing the better class vegetables for themselves from Chinese stalls, Australians providing improvised t...ART25082
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Lathe, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
2 Australian Imperial Force; lathe made from salvaged materials, set in heavy wooden bedART26523
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Lieutenant Colonel Cranston McEachern
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Cranston McEachern (QX6176), Commanding 2/24th Anti-Tank Regiment, RAA at Muar River. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26444
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Lieutenant Colonel Ian O'Donnell
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Ian John O'Donnell (VX43938), OBE, Commanding 2/10 Field Company, RAE. Taken prisoner by the Japanese.ART26433
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Lieutenant Colonel John (Glyn) White
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel John George Glyn White (VX21434), OBE, Deputy Assistant Director Medical Services, Administrative Headquarters. Taken a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese.ART26438
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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Webster
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Marriott William Webster (TX2107), MC, ED, Commanding 2nd Australian Convalescent Depot, Australian Army Medical Service. Taken a prisoner-of-war by the...ART26439
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Lieutenant Colonel Sir Albert Coates
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Albert Ernest Coates, Kt, OBE, MD, MS, FRCS, Medical Officer, 8th Australian Division ex-prisoner of war of the Japanese. Australian Army Medical Corps (AA...ART27000
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Lieutenant Colonel William Jeater
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel William David Jeater (NX34992), commanding officer of 2/20th Battalion. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese.ART26432
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Major Alexander Thompson
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Alexander Norman Thompson (NX34974), Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, AIF Headquarters, 8th Division. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26446
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Malay women and children, drawing for 8th Division book
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A black pen and ink drawing of a group of Malayan women and children carrying baskets and food. It was originally drawn to be included as an illustration in a book about the 8th Division AIF's experie...ART90662
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“67 ½ mile peg, Mersing road”
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Unidentified Australian Medical Officers tending wounded by the roadside. A recess in the jungle which had been built for the purpose.ART24469
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Not titled [Native houses a) coconut groved b) natives resting]
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
top: houses in coconut grove, bottom: natives resting near house. Drawn in Singapore whilst the artist was interned there as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese.ART28404.006
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Not titled [POW carrying water]
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Pen and ink drawing of an emaciated POW carrying water. This work was drawn after the artist was repatriated to Australia after spending three and a half years in Changi POW camp. It was originally ...ART90663
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Not titled [POW life: a) guard b) listening to lecture c) chunkling d) borehold piece]
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Four sketches of life in camp: top l-r: guard, prisoner seated on stool, bottom i-r: two men using Malay chunkels (large hoe) when gardening, two men at latrinesART28404.004
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Not titled [POW scenes: a) Burial scene b) Native building c) Natives outside shop]
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Three pen and ink drawings depicting scenes from Changi POW camp during the Second World War. The first depicts a number of Australian soldiers burying a fellow serviceman. The second is an example of...ART28729
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Not titled [Seven heads of various types]
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
sketches of heads, with variety of hats and caps (top l-r: slouch hat, air force forage cap, 2nd row l-r: slouch hat, army officer's cap, middle: army officer's cap, bottom l-r: slouch hat, naval offi...ART28404.007
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Not titled [Tamils]
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Tamils are an Indian low-caste sect, many of whom inhabit Singapore and Malaya. The drawing shows a Tamil worker carrying his tool of trade - a chunkel or large hoe, the Malayan equivalent of a shovel...ART28404.005
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Not titled [two prisoners working in a garden]
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A black and white sketch of two emaciated POWs working in a garden, drawn after the artist was repatriated to Australia after being incarcerated in Changi POW camp for three and a half years. This i...ART28404.001
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Not titled [Two prisoners working in garden (frontispiece for proposed 8th Division book)]
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Colour sketch of two Australian prisoners of war toiling in a garden. Originally designed to be the frontispiece for a proposed book about the 8th Division AIF's experiences in Malaya, it was drawn af...ART28404.002
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POW (bookjacket for proposed 8th Division book)
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A colour drawing featuring the letters "P.O.W." entangled in barbed wire against a striped background reminiscent of prisoner's costumes. This work was originally intended to be the book jacket forART28404.003
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POW just returned from Burma
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts an emaciated man, recently returned from Burma-Thailand railway, resting in a hospital bed and showing his physical condition. This is one of a small collection of works on paper by Murray Gri...ART26524
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POW Quarters, Selerang
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Elegant but crowded and no mod cons. Selerang was near the famous Changi Gaol, another POW Camp. Both camps were occupied at various times by Australian prisoners-of-war. Buildings of Selarang Barrack...ART26472
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Prisoners gardening at Changi, 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Landscape looking south to the Singapore Harbour in the distance. In the foreground right and centre groups of prisoners are engaged in gardening to grow their own food. In the foreground left a priso...ART28104
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P.W. huts, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Very many huts arose throughout the Selerang area to accommodate those prisoners-of-war who could not be crowded into the buildings. The huts were built of any possible available material, e.g the one...ART26515
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Refugees
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Locals wearing their best apparel and carrying as many household goods as they could manage, streaming in from the East Coast villages in an effort to make their way to Singapore. Many of the kampongs...ART24482
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Rice grinding, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts two unidentified men using improvised rice grinder. An old native stone mill made to work more easliy with a lever, Changi, Singapore, 1943.ART26522
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Selarang buildings
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Occupied by NCO prisoners-of-war captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. The buildings were previously part of Selarang Barracks occupied by the British troops garrisoning Singapore. The ar...ART26473
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Sergeant Fullerton carried to safety
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
(WX8119) "Sergeant R.C Fullerton, 10 Pc, C Coy, 2/4th Australian Machine Gun Battalion was lying in the lalang, wounded, with bullets flying around. Four of his friends courageously come out into the ...ART26527
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Sergeant J Russell
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Sergeant John Lewis Russell, QX1899, 2/26 Australian Infantry Battalion, 8th Australian Division. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. Born in Mitchell...ART26449
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Straits of Johore from POW Camp, Selerang
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A view from the prisoner of war camp at Selerang, across the mountains to the Straits of Johore.ART26498
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To the memory of Private Smith
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
An allegorical study for inclusion in a projected publication of drawings and articles of the Australian 8th Division. The artist intended this to be tribute the Australian soldier, who refused to be ...ART28404.008
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Ulcer operation, Thailand railway
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Japanese soldiers stand guard over an operation performed by prisoners on a tropical ulcer. Ulcers were formed when a scratch became infected due to the lack of a nourishing diet and appropriate medic...ART25052
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Warrant Officer 1 Arthur Purdon
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Warrant Officer Class 1 Arthur Henry Mason Purdon DCM (NX67447), Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant, 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese a...ART26445