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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