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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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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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Australian POWs embarking for home on the Largs Bay at Singapore docks
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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...ART23374
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Australian soldiers examining wrecked cars and trucks in dock area
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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...ART23380
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1 BN Officers Mess, Havelock Rd
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Maker: Brindley, John
Depicts a prisoner of war seated reading at a table inside the mess, also at the Working Party Camp, Havelock Rd. The intersection of River Valley Road and Havelock Road, Singapore, was the site of tw...ART28113
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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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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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Convalescent soldiers at 2/14 Australian General Hospital
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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...ART23378
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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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Ed Attridge
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Maker: Pugh, Clifton
A profile sketch of the chairman of the Gallipoli task force, Ed Attridge, drawn on route from Singapore to Istanbul. Pugh was appointed official war artist for the 75th Anniversary of the Gallipoli l...ART29507
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Entrance to the Cathay Building, Singapore
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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...ART23370
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Furniture (by POW)
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Maker: Brindley, John
Depicts seven groups of make-shift furniture acquired or made by prisoners of war at the River Road Camp: a plank chair, a rope swinging bed, a suspended slat bed, a cigarette lighter, a dressing tabl...ART28114
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Gaiety theatre
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Maker: Brindley, John
Depicts the interior at a camp theatre designed by the artist/donor as 'Camp Architect' at Changi, with a group of prisoners of war on the stage.ART28112
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Hold it, we're with you, buddy
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Maker: Aria, George Aubrey Aria, George Aubrey
A cartoon depicting an Australian soldier pushing on a door labelled 'Singapore', while the figure of the US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, stands behind him, with a clenched fist and right hand...ART92347
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Ian Croft and Lindsay McSkimming
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Maker: Baird, John
Stoker Ian Campbell Croft (34578), HMAS Cerberus, and Pilot Officer Lindsay Gordon Skimming (26177), HMAS Moreton are depicted reclining on seats sleeping on board Flying Boat VH-ABG "Coriolanus" fro...ART27889
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In hospital, Sime Rd
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Maker: Brindley, John
Depicts three prisoners of war resting on beds in the corner of a convalescent camp hospital, Sime Road, Singapore, after working on the Thailand-Burma Railway.ART28116
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Interior of ward 5, 2/14 A.G.H, Singapore
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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...ART23379
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Interior of ward at 2/14 A.G.H
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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...ART23377
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"Keep it under your hat!"
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Maker: Unknown Singapore Government Government Printing Office Singapore
Singaporese Second World War poster cautioning against careless talk. In the top quarter of the poster is an image of a British steel helmet, with the title printed underneath and the message appearin...ARTV07926
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Lecture on 'A' Deck
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Drawn at sea on board SS Duntroon whilst it was conveying 2 Australian Prisoner-of-War Reception Group to Singapore to repatriate ex prisoners-of-warART24401
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Liberated Singapore
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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...ART23383
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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
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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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Mergui landing stage, Burma
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
A force of 3000 men left Singapore. Some of the Australians and Allied prisoners of war, under the command o NX34999 Colonel G.E. Ramsey, ED., who left Singapore on the 15 May, 1942. This move was dec...ART28535.006
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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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Military trucks in the drive at Cathay Building, Singapore
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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...ART23371
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Mrs Boyd Moriatry, Commandant Red Cross Field Force, U.K.
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Maker: Marie, Desiree
Portrait depicting Barbara (Mrs Boyd) Moriarty, Commandant, Australian Red Cross Field Force in, (formerly Australian Comforts Fund, Middle East, 2nd Australian General Hospital (Red Cross), later 3rd...ART28178
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Native labourers beginning to move burnt-out wreckage in dock area
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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...ART23376
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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 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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On the boat deck, HMT Duntroon
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Members of 2 Australian Prisoner of War (POW) reception group travelled to Singapore aboard HMT Duntroon to establish reception camps for Australian prisoners of war released from Japanese prison camp...ART24400
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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 Life: electro-medical section
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Maker: Adams, J
"Sums up the artist's idea of a gang trying to produce electro-medical apparatus and extract drugs." Description of work provided by the donor, Dr. B. L. W. Clarke, 23rd June, 1966. Depicts a Changi l...ART32374
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Private P Smith
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Portrait depicting Private P Smith, 2/19th Australian Infantry Battalion, survivor of Rokyu Maru, Japanese transport taking prisoners-of-war to Japan.ART25851
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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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Regular flying-boat services between Australia and England
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Maker: Unknown Unknown
QANTAS and Imperial Airways advertising poster. Starting in 1938 Qantas and Imperial (later British) Airways ran a thrice-weekly service from Sydney to Southampton, through Singapore, until the fall o...ARTV05164
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Rescued POWs broadcast to Australia
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Surrounded by released POWs, ABC war correspondent Talbot Duckmanton holds the microphone while NX56669 Sgt Blain, 2/12th Field Coy, RAE, with Sgt Frank Martin and S/Sgt Joe James, sends a message to ...ART26826
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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 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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Singapore resting place
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Showing the graves of Australian Servicemen who fell in the fighting in Singapore previous to the capitulation. They are in the grounds of St. Andrew's Cathedral.ART24418
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Sister Vera Torney
Art
Maker: Hanke, Henry
Australian Army Nursing Service, Transport Ship SS Empire Star; VXF63746 Sister Vera Alexandra Torney, MBE, AANS; evacuated from on SS Empire Star, February 1942ART22212
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Slim River, a stop on the railway journey from Singapore to Bampong
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Prisoners being moved into railway carriages at Slim River, a stop on the railway journey fron Singapore to Bampong in Thailand in 1942. The journey took five days by rail, with thirty-two men crammed...ART91845
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Stan Quinn, Bill Cooper and Bill Hall
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Maker: Pugh, Clifton
Figures left to right: Mr Stan Quinn (94 years old), Mr Bill Cooper and Mr Bill Hall, members of 75th anniversary pilgrimage to Anzac Cove. Pugh was appointed official war artist for the 75th Annivers...ART29505
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Studies for 'Defeat, Singapore'
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Three drawings done by the artist as studies for his painting 'Defeat, Singapore'ART29540
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The derelict
Art
Maker: Abbott, Harold
A military truck, devoid of its front wheels, is shown stranded in a coconut grove in Sungei Bulah, SingaporeART24406
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The Fall
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Maker: Tiatia, Angela
'The Fall' provides a contemporary illustration and insight into Singapore's and Australia's shared wartime experience during the Second World War and its complex legacies for both nations. It was dev...AWM2018.207.1
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The Man with the Sickle
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Seen through an open section of a decrepit bulding, a group of eight emaciated POWs in Singapore are returning from a working party. The man in the doorway carries a sickle while the other men carry r...ART22925
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The skyways are today's highways
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Maker: Jardine, Walter Lacy Qantas Empire Airways Ltd. Boylan and Co. Ltd.
An advertising poster for Qantas Empire Airways designed by leading Australian commercial artist Walter Jardine in 1939. The poster depicts the Short "C" Class Empire flying-boat 'Cooee' taking off at...ARTV05155
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'The studio POW River Valley Road
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Maker: Brindley, John
Depicts the interior of a camp hut with beds and a table and chair. The intersection of River Valley Road and Havelock Road, Singapore, was the site of two POW camps which acted as dispatch camps for ...ART28115
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Turnabout
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Study for a 6-inch coastal gun in its position near Koepang, Timor. It, with others, had been captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore and removed by them to its present position. It is thoug...ART26331
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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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Unloading supplies from the "MURRAMBIDGEE" for Liberated Singapore
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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...ART23373
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Veterans
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Maker: Pugh, Clifton
Sketches of four veterans of the Gallipoli landing of 1915. Pugh was appointed official war artist for the 75th Anniversary of the Gallipoli landing at Anzac Cove in 1990.ART29510
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Veterans
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Maker: Pugh, Clifton
Depicts sketches of three veterans of the ANZAC Day Gallipoli landing of 1915. Pugh was appointed official war artist for the 75th Anniversary of the Gallipoli landing at Anzac Cove in 1990.ART29511
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War Fronts (Bunker)
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Maker: Ding, Debbie
Debbie Ding's 'War Fronts' imagines three archetypal landscapes from the fall of Singapore - the landing of the Japanese on Sarimbun Beach, battles in the jungles of northwest Singapore as the Japanes...AWM2017.1142.3
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War Fronts (Coast)
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Maker: Ding, Debbie
Debbie Ding's 'War Fronts' imagines three archetypal landscapes from the fall of Singapore - the landing of the Japanese on Sarimbun Beach, battles in the jungles of northwest Singapore as the Japanes...AWM2017.1142.1
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War Fronts (Jungle)
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Maker: Ding, Debbie
Debbie Ding's 'War Fronts' imagines three archetypal landscapes from the fall of Singapore - the landing of the Japanese on Sarimbun Beach, battles in the jungles of northwest Singapore as the Japanes...AWM2017.1142.2
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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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Watching the boxing contest
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
A scene on board SS Duntroon during the voyage to Singapore taking 2 Australian Prisoner-of-War Reception Group to repatraite liberated Australian prisoners-of-war. The liberated prisoners are seen at...ART24402