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AIF POW theatre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This building had been a workshop and was used for about a year by an Australian POW Concert Party until it was required for accommodation. All seats were made from palm logs. Rear stalls made of rubb...ART26496
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AIF seedling nursery, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing portion of the AIF nursery where seedlings were raised for planting in the unit gardens in the prisoner-of-war camp at Changi. Vegetables grown in these gardens were an essential addition to t...ART26509
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AIF theatre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This drawing depicts an entertainment called '203' in progress with three of the cast on the stage - John Wood, Jack Smith and Harry Smith. The entertainment was suprisingly lavish considering the lac...ART26497
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A 100 metre hut, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men relaxing outside an atap hut, which is made from split bamboo, with the sides of hut raised for ventilation in November 1944. The garden beds out the front are those of individual prisoners. In 1...ART25063
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A trailer party, Changi 1944
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Two prisoners dragging an improvised trailer loaded with full sacks and escorted by a Japanese guard.ART25100
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Bookbinding, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
When the Japanese gave permission for a stock of books to be brought into the camp from Raffles Library in Singapore, their constant repair was essential. This was carried out with odds and ends of ra...ART25062
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Broom making, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing various aspects of the manufacture of brooms by Australian prisoners-of-war captured at Singapore. At the time the drawing was made the brooms were made from sliced bamboo, later they were mad...ART26505
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Captain John Vernon
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Griffin has composed this portrait to tell the story of Captain John Murray Vernon (NX34879), MC, of the 2/18th Australian Infantry Battalion. He is posing in front of the Kranji river at the place wh...ART24496
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Changi gaol from the 100 metre huts
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicted is a prisoner hanging out washing with the concrete structure of Changi gaol in the background. Griffin captured the scene in October 1944. In 1944 all the POWs, some 10,000 men, held at Ser...ART25067
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Changi library
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Stocked with books brought into the prison camp by the men, mainly in the march from Tanglin Camp in 1942. Later the Japanese allowed prisoners-of-war to bring in more books from Raffles Library, Sing...ART26501
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Changi trailer party carrying logs
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This party of prisoners-of-war in Japanese hands in Changi POW Camp, are seen carting coconut tree logs into camp for firewood. The logs have been cut just outside the camp by troops of the Australian...ART26488
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Cooking rice on deep fry stove, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
To cope with the requirements of many thousands of men, three large deep-fry cooking stoves were constructed in Changi Goal. Here a round-the-clock staff turned the monotonous rice into more appetisin...ART26493
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Dental centre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
At the prisoner-of-war camp at Changi Goal. Dental treatment was affordable at the fall of Singapore and who took their equipment into captivity with them. The Centre is housed in a native-built attap...ART26467
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Duck yard, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
When the rice ration at Changi POW Camp was sufficient, a certain amount of swill enabled many men to keep poultry, (mostly ducks) and a motley assortment of pens sprang up everywhere, composed of wir...ART26508
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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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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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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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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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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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Kitchens and huts outside the gaol walls, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A scene of the Changi camp with kitchens built from scrap materials, huts built of split bamboo and attap roofs, and an improvised trailer for moving goods around camp. In 1944 all the POWs, some 10,0...ART25083