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Artificial limb construction, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing some of the limbs manufactured a the AIF POW Convalescent Depot. Series of drawings showing construction of artificial leg, including knee and ankle joints, 'Limb Factory', under supervision o...ART26502
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Artificial Limb Factory, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
The 'factory' was housed in the coolie lines at rear of Convalescent Depot, Changi Goal. Depicts three unidentified men engaged in different aspects of making artificial limbs.ART26503
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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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Changi footwear industry: making soles
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Series of drawings showing steps in manufacture of footwear for prisoners of war from powdering and mixing ingredients to pouring into moulds. The prisoners in Changi established a workshop within the...ART25096
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Changi footwear industry: pressing and drying soles
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Series of drawings showing steps in manufacture of footwear for prisoners of war, including presses, trimmers and ovens for drying. The prisoners in Changi established a workshop within the camp to pr...ART25095
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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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Digging bore hole latrines, Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men using improvised auger to dig bore-hole latrines, a necessity in a camp that housed thousands of men.ART24493
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Drawing salt water for the camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
As little or no salt was issued to the POW's held by the Japanese, organised parties were allowed to collect salt water in which to cook their rations of rice. The drawing shows a party of men pouring...ART25068
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Electric rice grinder, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men from 8 Division Ammunition Sub-Park and left to right: Private W F Kelly, Private A J Cooper, Private L M Bover, Corporal J Warren. The inset figure is Private L J Slee who designed the grinder us...ART25089
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Examining for malaria, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Australian Army Medical Corps, Roberts Hospital; specimen examined for malaria, Pathology LaboratoryART26484
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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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Kitchen of officers' mess, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
The room is in a building of the Selerang Barracks, previously a British Army establishment. One of the buildings has been set aside as a Convalescent Depot for prisoners-of-war of the Japanese, house...ART26500
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Lathe, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
2 Australian Imperial Force; lathe made from salvaged materials, set in heavy wooden bedART26523
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Machine thread manufacture, Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Sketch showing improvised machine for manufacturing cotton thread from Japanese Army issue socks. The prisoners in Changi established a workshop within the camp to produce most items, such as shoes, c...ART25079
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Main yeast distribution centre, Selerang
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
The yeast, at this time, was given as a small issue to everyone to help in the battle against malnutrition. Later, only the sick received it. It was made from rice polishings, sweet potatoes, sugar an...ART26506
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Making rice cakes, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men of 2/29th Battalion kitchen unit making rice cakes. Rice was provided by the Japanese and was a staple of the prisoners diet.ART25071
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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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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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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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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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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
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Repairing metal food containers, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
The making and repairing of metal food containers for use by the prisoners. The prisoners in Changi established a workshop within the camp to produce most items, such as shoes, artificial limbs, cooki...ART26479
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Repairing trailer, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A portion of a motor vehicle, the engine of which ad been hidden in pieces by prisoners, so that, in an emergency a moveable vehicle could be got ready. In its present condition it is used as a manual...ART26490
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Rice grinding, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts two unidentified men using improvised rice grinder. An old native stone mill made to work more easliy with a lever, Changi, Singapore, 1943.ART26522
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Rice polishing extractor, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Drawing of two men operating improvised press for extracting vitamins from rice polishings The rice polishings supplied for the prisoners-of-war by the Japanese, were generally of very poor quality - ...ART26454
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Rubber industry activities, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A. Patching clothes with latex. B. Press to stick rubber soles on boots C. Cutting and trimming rubber soles. Latex is the pure rubber as tapped from the rubber tree. For the purposes shown here, it w...ART26520
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Soap manufacturing industry
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicting three of the various stages of soap making in the Changi prisoner-of-war camp, by prisoners with improvised equipment. Extreme left; many washings of wood ash to produce potassium carbonate....ART26518
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Soap manufacturing industry: pouring into moulds, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
No soap was issued by the Japanese to their prisoners-of-war, so the prisoners had to make it, very often with appliances ingeniously contrived from odds and ends. The picture here shows the later sta...ART26519
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Spinning thread from hemp twine, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men from the 18th (British) Division Royal Army Ordnance Corps spinning thread from hemp twine with a machine designed and made in the Changi prisoner of war camp by Captain G U Hill and Regimental Se...ART26455
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Sterilizing and medium making, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian General Hospital; view of pathology laboratory bench with apparatus for making culture medium and sterilizationART26485
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2/9th Australian Field Ambulance cookhouse, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
One of the many clusters around the Barrack Square, Selerang Barracks, used by the Japanese to house prisoners-of-war. A prisoner of the 2/9th Australian Field Ambulance attending to the cooking requi...ART26474
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The camp potter, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
With the aid of an old crank-shaft, local clay and a constructed kiln, Private Douglas Marks Fraser (NX40359) of 2/18th Battalion, managed to make toddy pots, so that the few coconut palms in the camp...ART25074
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The move to Barrack Square, 2 September 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Forced movement of Australian and British prisoners with their belongings to Selarang Barracks on 2 September 1942. Over 15,000 prisoners were concentrated in the square by the Japanese General Fukuye...ART25084
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The rice grinders, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
The first effort to grind rice into flour were made with bottles as shown in this drawing. Later, improved types of grinders were invented. Changi Prisoners-of-War Camp, Singapore. Men grinding rice, ...ART25054
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The shower, Changi, early days
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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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Trailer party bringing in rubber tree logs, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Members of working party hauling a trailer load of firewood. The trailer had been improvised from a truck chassis and pulled by manpower. The strength demanded by this task became beyond the reach of ...ART24473
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Workshop at Selerang
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts Sergeant Alexander Barclay, 2/10 Field Coy RAE and Staff Sergeant J S Whelan, 2/10th Field Coy RAE in an improvised workshop. Selerang Barracks were former British Army Barracks and were used...ART26628