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Attack on Japanese tanks on the Bakri-Parit Sulong Road
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Reconstruction of action against Japanese tanks by 2/4th Anti Tank Regiment along Bakri-Parit Sulong Road. This was the scene of intense fighting by withdrawing Australian troops as the Japanese rapid...ART27570
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Brigadier Arthur Varley
Art
Brigadier Arthur Leslie Varley (NX35005), MC, commanding officer of 2/18 Battalion and later of 22nd Australian Infantry Brigade. Varley was interned in Changi until May 1942 when he was appointed to ...ART26425
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Brigadier Duncan Maxwell
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
A portrait of Brigadier Duncan Struan Maxwell (NX12610) of the 27th Australian Infantry Brigade.ART26422
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Captain John Vernon
Art
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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Captain William Ronald Magarry
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Set against the landscape where Captain William Ronald Magarry, MC, of D Company, 2/26 Battalion was awarded his MC for bravery, Griffin has portrayed the rugged terrain and grim determination of Maga...ART24497
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Changi prison camp, early days
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Members of the Australian Imperial Force, 8th Australian Division in Changi prison camp. Of this work he noted; 'I started to paint the life around me. Men showering under the eaves of buildings in ra...ART24480
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Changi trailer party carrying logs
Art
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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Chaplain Matthew Jones
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Matthew Kenneth Jones (NX70156), Senior Chaplain Church of England, 8th Division. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, 1942. Drawn in Changi POW Camp.ART26427
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Chaplain Michael Dolan
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Michael Joseph Dolan, Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain of the AIF 8th Division.ART26423
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Colonel James Thyer
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Colonel James Hervey Thyer (VX12755), member of General Bennett's staff and GOC1. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at Singapore.ART26431
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First Australian prisoners of war from Malaya arrive in Cairns by catalinas
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Large numbers of Australian prisoners of war are arriving at the wharf in Cairns and being greeted by Australian officers and soldiers in uniform. A genial major reassures a POW who has misplaced his ...ART25628
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Frying rice cakes, Changi
Art
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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Hello, Joe
Art
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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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Anderson VC MC
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson (NX12595), VC, MC, 2/19 Australian Infantry Battalion at Muar River. Taken prisoner by the Japanese.ART26436
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Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Galleghan
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick G Galleghan, DSO, ED, commanding officer of the 2/30th Battalion of the 8th Division. 'Black Jack', as he was known, was given command of the AIF prisoners in August 1942 ...ART25070
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Lieutenant Colonel Leon Stahle
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Leon Rossiter Dalgleish Stahle (VX24581), Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Stores. Taken prisoner by the Japanese.ART26434
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Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Bryne
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Leslie James Austin Byrne (NX34829), Commanding Australian Army Service Corps. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26443
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Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Pond
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Austin Frank Pond (VX44770), OBE, Commander 2/29 Battalion at Muar River. Taken a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26440
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Major Campbell
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Major Peter Campbell, 8 Div Headquarters; defence of Malaya and, Railway. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand R...ART28403.088
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Major Phillip Head
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Major Phillip Lyburn Head (NX34763), Deputy Assistant Adjutant General and Legal Staff of Australian 8th Division. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26448
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Matron Vivian Bullwinkel
Art
Maker: Bourne, Shirley
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel AO, MBE, ARRC, ED (1915-2000) served with the 8th Division’s 2/13th Australian General Hospital. She was the sole survivor of the infamous Banka Island massacre an...ART28389
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Preparing rice for pastry, Changi
Art
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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Private Cyril Croft
Art
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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Reunion at Changi
Art
Maker: Abbott, Harold
Showing one of the members of 8th Australian Division greeting one of his countrymen who had just arrived in Singapore to release and succour those who have been incarcerated in the Gaol at Changi, th...ART23949
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Sapper Albert West
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Sapper Albert Edward Gay West (VX31236) of 2/10 Field Company. Prisoner of war with Griffin in Changi.ART28986
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Sergeant Geoffrey Cyril Bingham
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Sergeant Geoffrey Cyril Bingham (NX32437), 8 Division Signals. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. After his liberation, Bingham was awarded a Militar...ART26452
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The shower, Changi, early days
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
A scene in the Selerang prisoner-of-war camp in the early days of captivity. There was no water laid on for the first year at Selerang and all ablutions were carried out at improvised water-points, an...ART25085
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Withdrawal from Parit Sulong
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Australian soldiers withdrawing from Parit Sulong on the Muar River during the defence of Malaya and Singapore. A scene typical of many in the fight down the Peninsular. Troops, being cut off by Japan...ART26529