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Frying rice cakes, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Two prisoners of war at the Changi camp frying rice cakes on a makeshift stove consisting of a metal plate , under a native style shelter. This is one of a small collection of works on paper by Murray...ART26489
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Garden area inside Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men working at firewood stacks, making compost and tending gardens within the Changi camp. This works portrays the organised system the prisoners had established for the smooth running of the camp. Th...ART25053
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General view from Selerang Square
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Selarang was the location where the AIF prisoners were originally housed upon their captivity. In mid 1944 all Allied POWs, some 10,000 men, were transferred to Changi gaol proper.ART26511
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Goal cell, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Living accommodation in Changi gaol. In the middle of 1944 all the POWs, some 10,000 men, held at Selarang Barracks and surrounds had to move to Changi goal proper, which was designed to accommodate 6...ART25092
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'Got a light, Dig?'
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Drawing depicting three types of prisoners - a Russian, a Dutchman from the Netherlands East Indies, and an Australian.ART25097
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Grass cutting and crushing machine, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
The finer type of grass was gathered outside the camp, cut, crushed and soaked for 24 hours, then the liquid taken medicinally as a preventative against beri beri. On the left a POW is feeding an inve...ART26507
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Grass extract shed, Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing two Australian POW men in Changi prison crushing and soaking grass for beri beri preventitive. The prisoners received few medicines from the Japanese and had to experiment with their own mixtu...ART24471
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Group Captain Wilfred Arthur
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Group Captain Wilfred Stanley Arthur, DFC, RAAF.ART27539
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Halt during the withdrawal from Bakri, January, 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Australian soldiers resting under a tree in the jungle at Bakri, Muar River, during the defence of Malaya and Singapore. The simple scene of two men resting under a large tree is intruded upon by the ...ART24490
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Halt for midday rice
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Five prisoners of the log loading party sitting in the shade for their midday ration of rice.ART25093
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Harry Smith strikes a light
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Portrait of Private Harry Smith, a prisoner of war at the Changi camp in Singapore, seated using flint, tinder and a spinning wheel, to strike a light for the cigarette held by another prisoner seated...ART24485
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Hello, Joe
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A Chinese boy greeting a member of the 8th Australian Division in the manner universal to children in Malaya, the salutation 'Hello Joe!' accompanied by the 'thumbs up' sign. This was before the Japan...ART24479
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HMAS Perth fights to the last, 28th February, 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts HMAS Perth fighting her last battle on 28 February 1942. There were survivors of the sinking of HMAS Perth who were rescued and sent to Changi as prisoners of war, where Griffin, official war...ART24483
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Hoisting British, American, Dutch flags over Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This is the last sketch official war artist Murray Griffin completed whilst he was interned at Changi. Drawn shortly after the liberation of the camp in August 1945, it shows the hoisting of British, ...ART26457
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Hospital surroundings and burial party, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Improvised trailer used as as a hearse, carrying a dead soldier swathed in the Union Jack flag. The burial cortege is passing a row of atap huts at the Changi prisoner of war camp.ART26480
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Hospital ward, Burma-Thailand railway
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Gaunt, skeletal figures lying on beds inside a hospital on the Burma-Thailand railway. Griffin's use of light and shade in this work accentuates the physical condition and obvious suffering of the men...ART25104
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Huts in the medical area, Changi gaol
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Two views of camp hospitals. Top hospital made of wood and attap huts, with a vegetable patch in the foreground. Bottom hospital was the former residence for gaol officials.ART25101
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Inside Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Australian men sawing log with crosscut saw on a saw horse with an improvised trailer lying nearby. The wood would form a part of the camp, such as a hut, for the POWs. Physical work such as this was ...ART24472
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Interior view of 100 - metre hut, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This work depicts an interior view of a hut used for accommodation of Allied prisoners. In 1944 all the POWs, some 10,000 men, held at Selarang Barracks and surrounds had to move to Changi goal proper...ART26492
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Keeping communication clear between Mersing and Endau
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Under machinegun fire and bombing attacks, Sgt Geoffrey Cyril Bingham, (NX32437) 8th Division Signals, with two other men, repairs damaged telephone wires between Mersing and Endau, Malaya. Bingham wa...ART24492