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A3, Cell 23, Changi POW camp
Art
Maker: Cochran, Richard
Depicts a drawing of A3 cell 23, Changi POW camp. Cpl Richard John Cochran, NX57309, 2/12th Field Coy, Royal Australian Engineers, 27th Brigade-8th Division, was a POW in Malaya during the Second Worl...ART28907
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A Changi night patrol
Art
Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
Cartoon sketch of an Australian prisoner of war sitting up on his sleeping mat, trying to scare away several bugs that have crept up on him during the night.ART90378.001
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Aerial view of Changi POW Camp, Singapore Island
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
The buildings were originally the barracks of the Gordon Highlanders, a regiment of the British Regular Army. The square and surrounding buildings were used by the Japanese to house all the Australian...ART28535.001
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A fine day at last
Art
Maker: Brindley, John
Depicts a prisoner of the war relaxing on a chair in the garden between two rows of huts.ART28111
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Aftermath
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Depicting the destruction of the 100-metre huts at Changi Prisoner-of-War Camp which for three long years housed Australian and Allied troops captured by the Japanese. The huts took very little destro...ART24405
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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
Art
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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Altar at Changi
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Maker: Spain, Rod
An altar at the Changi prisoner of war camp. The artist was a prisoner of war from 1942 through to 1945.ART92162
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A stringed charpoy our Malayan bed April 1942
Art
Maker: Korsch, John Donald
A comfortable bed with the addition of a blanket, used by the prisoners extensively in Malaya before the fall of Singapore. Given the required material they could be quickly assembled.ART28535.004
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Australia through the windscreen
Art
Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
An unidentified Australian man, possibly 'Lille', stands under a beaming light, his hands resting on a table in front of him and a pipe in his mouth. In the background are a row of faces.ART90378.011
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Brigadier K Torrance
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
British Brigadier K S Torrance, OBE, MC, General Staff CommandART26426
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Carrathool Pub, Riverina
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
Pencil sketch of the Carrathool Pub. It is positioned on a corner, and a truck is parked nearby on the street. On the other side of the street is a row of telegraph poles and a man is riding a horse.ART90378.003
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Classical concert, Changi
Art
Maker: Sprod, George Napier
Depicts a classical concert held in Changi, with a soloist violin and piano player on stage in front of an audience.ART29034
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Colonel A Derham
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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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D3, Bo.36, Changi Prison
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Maker: Greig, Allister
Allister Greig was a South Australian-born commercial artist who served in the first AIF and was a civilian internee in Singapore from 1942 to 1945. He was an amateur magician and was caught by prison...ART26749
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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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Ex POWs waiting for transport
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
A group of ex POWs are waiting for Transport in Changi, Singapore. Changi was the main prisoner-of-war camp in Singapore where some 14,972 Australians captured at the fall of Singapore were imprison...ART22924
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Ex prisoners-of-war waiting to leave Changi
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Australian troops who had been prisoners-of-war in the hands of the Japanese for three and a half years are shown patiently waiting for transport to take them from Changi prison camp, where they had b...ART24404
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For all the smell we aren't so dead
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
A man is walking along playing what looks like a clarinet. Jumping off the ground at his feet are some fish, while in the background are some hot water boilers.ART90378.013
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[George McNeilly conducting class]
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Maker: Sprod, George Napier
Amongst the many activities held in Changi to alleviate boredom, was a conducting class held by George McNeilly, a member of the YMCA unit.ART29033
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Half moon street, Changi
Art
Maker: Buckmaster, Ernest
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24...ART23381
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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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left image: Cheer up Dig, its only two thousand odd miles; right image: I always use Creosote when training em
Art
Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
left image: Two Australian prisoners of war have escaped on a boat. It is being tossed around by the wild sea and a shark fin is pictured in the foreground. right image: Two Australian prisoners of w...ART90379
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left image: "Hey poultry farmer, how much for this one?"; right image: "Give me a hand to catch this bloody box of Yak meat"
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
left image: A prisoner of war is asleep, and a dream bubble shows a POW standing behind an enormous snail, while a another POW looks on, standing next to the chook roost. right image: A POW is carryin...ART90384
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left image: Just as well we have a good fence round us; right image: Its about time we knocked off work
Art
Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
left image: A guard is jumping in the air in front of a tangled fence of barbed wire. An Australian prisoner of war is running away from him. right image: Three Australian prisoners of war stand nex...ART90381
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left image: "Ssh! This looks like a victory for us"; right image: Do you think its worth it?
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
left image: An Australian prisoner of war (POW) is quietly stealing a cigarette from a Japanese guard, while a fellow POW looks on. right image: The same POW is pictured sitting outside on wooden sla...ART90382
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left image: We have a rice thief in the gaol; right image: Mind if I take a cigarette paper mate?
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
left image: Rice is being funnelled out of a room through a pipe to a bag outside, however the process has been spotted by two other prisoners of war. right image: Five prisoners of war are sitting h...ART90383
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left: Not titled [food queue]; right: Wonder which the P.O.W's want drop't first
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
left image: Australian prisoners of war stand in a queue waiting to be served food. right image: View of two helicopter pilots sitting in a cockpit with beer and parachutes as cargo. The captions jok...ART90380
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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 William Jeater
Art
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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Music maestro
Art
Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
Possibly a potrait of a soldier known as only as 'McNeilly', he is pictured sitting in front of a grammaphone listening to music.ART90378.007
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Not titled [camp concert]
Art
Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
A group of Australian prisoners of war are watching a skit at an outdoor theatre at Changi Prison.ART90386
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Not titled [Changi scrapbook, containing 19 pages of drawings in brown folder with drawing and poem on cover]
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart Campbell, Edward Stewart
Sketchbook containing 19 pages in a brown folder with drawings and poems. The poem on the front cover was written by Slim De Grey and performed in a concert heard by the artist.ART90378
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Not titled [Grim reaper]
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
Sketch of a grim reaper brandishing a scythe. It has been swung over a railway track, killing people. To the right of the image, is a cemetery.ART90378.008
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Not titled [Grim reaper]
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
An enormous grim reaper is pictured brandishing a scythe across a railway track. The setting is a jungle environment. Dead people lay near the tracks and to one side is a cemetery.ART90378.004
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Not titled [hot dog vendor]
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
Two men are standing in the street at a hot dog vendor, purchasing food.ART90378.015
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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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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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recto: A Changi P.O.W building Feb to May 1942; verso: Tavoy drome, POW Camp
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
One of the well constructed reinforced concrete barrack building of the former Gordon Highlander Barracks, which were built in 1937. This area is now the Changi Prisoner of War Camp and used by the Ja...ART28535.002
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recto: Drover; verso: Murphy's brindle cow
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto: Drawing of an Australian drover walking down a dirt track lined with gum trees. He is leading a horse and his dog is nearby. verso: cartoon of a stockman racing a cow past a horse to the finis...ART90378.006
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recto: How is it Ned you never "Drink" though I've seen you tempted oft; verso: Haw!
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto: a man is crouching next to a river. He turns and holds aloft an open can, turning to look at a mate who has a bottle of alcohol in his pocket. verso: a man is sitting in the theatre, looking u...ART90378.018
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recto: Only half; verso: Ringers from the North
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto: Australian prisoners of war are lining up to collect their food. verso: This appears to show a scene from Australia, where a stockman from the north is shown looking at his appearance in a mirr...ART90391
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recto: On the road from Kluang to Datu Pahat; verso: Not titled [four men and a jeep]
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto: Scene at a market along a roadside where people are buying food; verso: two men are standing new a jeep, and two are seated on it.ART90378.014
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recto: The face on the bar room floor; verso: Smoke oh!
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto: Two men are standing at a bar having a drink, while in between them on the other side of the bar, is the publican. The heads of the three figures are reflecting in the mirror over the bar. ver...ART90378.017
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recto top image: Not titled [tank and aircraft]; recto bottom image: Not titled [beach scene]; verso top image: Not titled [homestead]; verso bottom image: Not titled [incomplete portrait sketches]
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto top image: tank featuring a kind of 'nose art', which is a drawing of an angel holding a Devil's pitchfork with the words 'Hell's Angel' on either side of her. Overhead flies an aircraft. rect...ART90378.009
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recto: We've got one dig; verso: Looking for Red Cross ships, Private - ?
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto: Two Australian prisoners of war are pushing around a large cog on a shaft. In the background, another Australian POW has surfaced; verso: an Australian prisoner of war has climbed up a palm tr...ART90378.016
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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 grinder, Changi
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
A home made rice grinder made by the Australian prisoners of war during the period of captivity in the Changi Prisoner of War Camp. The rice is first soaked beforehand then fed through the hole on the...ART28535.005
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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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Sergeant Fullerton carried to safety
Art
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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Skin graft stomach to wrist
Art
Maker: Aubrey-Crowe, George
Private Kenneth John Turich QX20059, 2/26th Battalion, 8th Division, shown here with a shoulder injury in the process of being repaired, a pedicle graft from abdominal wall to forearm, at a later stag...ART24396
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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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Strewth! One for the road
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
Two men are preparing to roll a keg of XXXX up on an already heavily laden truck. A woman has appeared next to them offering two full glasses of beer.ART90378.019
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S.W. Plains
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
A stockman is reclining underneath a gum tree, while his horse is grazing nearby. In the background are some trees and a windmill.ART90378.005
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The bludgers rest
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
A man lies in a bed with a 'very sick' sign hanging off the end. On the floor alongside the bed are some empty bottles and as the title suggests this 'bludgers' illness has been self inflicted.ART90392
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[The camp potter, D.M. Fraser (NX40359)]
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Maker: Parle, Geoffrey John
The work depicts Private Douglas Marks Fraser (NX40359) of 2/18th Battalion working at improvised wheel he had made. Fraser was the camp potter and made pots for use by the doctors as well as other ob...ART93360
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The eve of departure
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Scene depicting 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion in one of the 100 metre bamboo huts at Changi prisoner-of-war camp after the surrender of the Japanese. Changi was the main prisoner-of-war camp in...ART23951
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7th Mile Bukit Timah, Singapore
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Maker: Greig, Allister
Watercolour depicting burning buildings and barbed wire and a rifle in the foreground. The heaviest fighting on Singapore Island took place at this spot. The Japanese, whose losses were terrific, late...ART26748
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Toothbrush makers, Changi Gaol
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
Several Australian prisoners of war sit in a hut making toothbrushes from meagre materials.ART90388
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top image: Officers three to a room Dhoby lines; bottom image: not titled [men in huts]
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
top image: This drawing shows the accommodation huts where officers were housed three to a room. They are pictured sitting at tables and chairs. bottom image: This drawings shows the interior of the ...ART90385
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top image: The Legion of the Lost, the callus [sic]'; bottom image: Bla-Bla-Bla
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
top image: a male prisoner of war is hobbling down an aisle on crutches, while on either side of him sit other, almost skeletal, prisoners; bottom image: a senior member of the Australian Army is bein...ART90378.012
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top right: Not titled [camp scene. Australia]; bottom right: Not titled [Changi trailer party]
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
This sheet of paper features two drawings, one on the top right and the bottom right of the sheet. top right: Two Australian stockmen and a dog sit around a campfire. bottom right: Australian prisone...ART90387
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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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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
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Watch yere backs!!
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
A man's quiet reading time has been interrupted by a mate speeding along with a truck laden with sacks.ART90378.010
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Water cart, Changi, May 1942
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
One of the water carts (a converted motor vehicle) used in Changi Prisoner of War Camp. They were filled with chlorinated water and had to be manhandled by the prisoners themselves. This was one of th...ART28535.003
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Wheat district
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
Pencil sketch of an Australian homestead. A stockman leans on a verandah post, a dog sitting at his heels. Meanwhile a horse is tethered to a nearby fence. In the background are gumtrees, hills and...ART90378.002
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Ye're see Les, its this way - I told my girl I'd be home even if I had to walk
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
One Australian soldier is pushing a wheel barrow, while the other sits in it, holding a suitcase and swag.ART90390
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You P.O.W's are lucky blighters going home
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
A former prisoner of war is at the docks heading towards a transport vessel, when he passes a recently arrived Australian soldier, who says to him "you POWS are lucky blighters going home". The forme...ART90389