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Massage room, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing machine made for exercising the feet of beri beri patients - on side gave a weight against a pull upwards, the other a weight against the pressure downwards. In the background is an 'exercise'...ART26504
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Meal time at Changi, 1943
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Queue of men receiving rations at cookhouse. Rice was provided by the Japanese and was the staple ingredient of the diet of the prisoners at Changi. All food was equally divided so all men received th...ART25102
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Men of AIF Concert Party (Doug Peart, Slim de Grey, Fred Brightfield, John Wood, Doug Mathers, Eric Beattie, Harry Smith and Keith Stevens)
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Members of the 8th Division Signals and Australian Concert Party formed in Changi to entertain. Top: Doug Peart and Slim de Grey. Centre: Fred Brightfield, Corporal John Wood (NX65819), Doug Mathers. ...ART26495
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Men of AIF Concert Party (Val Mack, Frazer Harvey, John Wood, Jack Smith, Frank Wood and Jack Geoghegan)
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Members of the 8th Division Signals and Australian Concert Party formed in Changi to entertain. Top left - Lieutenant Val Mack (QX17732), commander of 2/10 Field Regiment, top right - Frazer Harvey (N...ART26494
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Men of F and H Force on return to Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A group of figure studies of emaciated men and their limbs and torsos. The figures are of men returned from the Burma-Thailand railway. This is one of a small collection of works on paper by Murray Gr...ART26514
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Nail making, Changi: cutting and pointing
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Improvised machine for nail making, cutting and pointing wire. The prisoners in Changi established a workshop within the camp to produce most items, such as shoes, artificial limbs, cooking equipment,...ART25058
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Nail making, Changi: forming the heads
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men using small vices flattening and embossing heads on nails. The prisoners in Changi established a workshop within the camp to produce most items, such as shoes, artificial limbs, cooking equipment,...ART25057
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Nail making, Changi: stretching wire
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Improvised machine for stretching wire to make nails. The prisoners in Changi established a workshop within the camp to produce most items, such as shoes, artificial limbs, cooking equipment, needed b...ART25056
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Not titled [POW activities A) Father time speaking to prisoner B) Doover making C) Prisoner resting]
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Top: allegorical drawing of prisoner of war and Father Time, middle: prisoner of war cooking rice cakes (doovers), bottom, recumbent man holding book on his chest.ART28728
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Not titled [Prisoner carrying belongings]
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
When a prisoners-of-war in Japanese hands was required to move from one camp to another, he was required to personally carry all his belongings with him. The drawing shows an Australian POW with all h...ART28730
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Officers' huts, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Interior view of one of the old huts relocated from outside Changi that were used as officers' quarters, showing the crowded conditions. Two men are depicted both with their backs to the viewer and e...ART25069
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Operating theatre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Australian Army Medical Service undertaking preparations for surgical operation. The medical staff attempted to be as hygienic as possible in the situation, as demonstrated in this work with the men w...ART26476
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Pantomime production, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Scene from 'Dick Whittington' pantomime, which was written by Leslie Greener, produced by John Wood. The actors from left to right are Charlie (Chas) 'Sexy' Wiggins, unknown, unknown, Doug Peart, unkn...ART24474
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Portraiture of war (Corporal Smith and Corporal Shokatasi)
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Allegorical drawing depicting horror and futility of war, and the equality of foes in death. Allied soldier Corporal Smith lies next to Japanese soldier Corporal Shokatasi in the foreign jungle of Mal...ART24489
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Preparing rice for pastry, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
In the top picture Australian POW's are seen mincing cooked rice for pastry. In the second picture men are shown grinding rice with a home made grinder manufactured form odds and ends of scraps. Rice ...ART25065
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Prisoners cutting Lalang grass, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Cutting grass to be used as compost for vegetable gardens, and loading it onto an improvised trailer for transport to gardens. Griffin has captured the movement of the men and the team work involved t...ART25091
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Private Cyril Croft
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait Private Cyril Croft (VX39686), 2/29th Australian Infantry Battalion. Originally from Coventry, England (b.1903) Croft enlisted on 3rd January 1941 at Royal Park Victoria. He served ...ART26451
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Pte 'Jock' Campbell smokes the fish
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
By running smoke through a metal locker, the nearly-rotten fish issued as rations were preserved and given a more edible flavour. Private 'Jock' Campbell, like many others, wears an artificial leg man...ART25075
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R.C. Chapel, Changi gaol
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A very elaborately designed and constructed altar and garden built late in 1944 outside the Goal at Changi, for the devotions of the men of the Roman Catholic faith who were prisoners-of-war of the Ja...ART26461
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Repairing dixies, Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Cooking utensils quickly wore out. They were at first repaired with scrap metal and old car body steel. Later green painted metal lockers in the barrack building were used. The top drawing shows men o...ART25066