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  1. A3, Cell 23, Changi POW camp

    Art

    Maker: Cochran, Richard

    Depicts a drawing of A3 cell 23, Changi POW camp. Cpl Richard John Cochran, NX57309, 2/12th Field Coy, Royal Australian Engineers, 27th Brigade-8th Division, was a POW in Malaya during the Second Worl...

    ART28907

  2. A CEREMONIAL PARADE WAS HELD ON SELARANG BARRACK SQUARE, CHANGI, TO CELEBRATE AUSTRALIA DAY, ...

    Photograph

    A CEREMONIAL PARADE WAS HELD ON SELARANG BARRACK SQUARE, CHANGI, TO CELEBRATE AUSTRALIA DAY, 1943. MEMBERS OF 27 INFANTRY BRIGADE PARADED UNDER THE COMMAND OF LT-COL C.H. KAPPE. THE SALUTE WAS TAKEN B...

    043921

  3. A CEREMONIAL PARADE WAS HELD ON SELARANG BARRACK SQUARE, CHANGI, TO CELEBRATE AUSTRALIA DAY, ...

    Photograph

    A CEREMONIAL PARADE WAS HELD ON SELARANG BARRACK SQUARE, CHANGI, TO CELEBRATE AUSTRALIA DAY, 1943. MEMBERS OF 27 INFANTRY BRIGADE PARADED UNDER THE COMMAND OF LT-COL C.H. KAPPE. THE SALUTE WAS TAKEN B...

    043916

  4. A Changi night patrol

    Art

    Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart

    Cartoon sketch of an Australian prisoner of war sitting up on his sleeping mat, trying to scare away several bugs that have crept up on him during the night.

    ART90378.001

  5. A Changi working party

    Art

    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    A group of prisoners of war forming a working party, one carrying a fire bucket to provide fire or a light for cigarettes. A Japanese guard walks amongst them. The men not sent to the Burma-Thailand r...

    ART25051

  6. A fine day at last

    Art

    Maker: Brindley, John

    Depicts a prisoner of the war relaxing on a chair in the garden between two rows of huts.

    ART28111

  7. Aftermath

    Art

    Maker: Abbott, Harold

    Depicting the destruction of the 100-metre huts at Changi Prisoner-of-War Camp which for three long years housed Australian and Allied troops captured by the Japanese. The huts took very little destro...

    ART24405

  8. "A hospital ward in Singapore showing members of the 8th Division released from the Changi ...

    Photograph

    Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer

    "A hospital ward in Singapore showing members of the 8th Division released from the Changi Prisoner-of War camp at Singapore. All were suffering from malnutrition. Nearest Camera T. Chiplin of Cardiff...

    019199

  9. AIF AND BRITISH POW, SELARANG BARRACKS, CHANGI, SINGAPORE. 1942-09-04. GENERAL VIEW OF WESTERN ...

    Photograph

    AIF AND BRITISH POW, SELARANG BARRACKS, CHANGI, SINGAPORE. 1942-09-04. GENERAL VIEW OF WESTERN END OF BARRACK SQUARE. MOTORLESS AMBULANCE AND WATER TANK IN LEFT FOREGROUND. IN RIGHT MIDDLE ARE LATRINE...

    132940

  10. AIF AND BRITISH POW, SELARANG BARRACKS, CHANGI, SINGAPORE, 1942-09-02. TROOPS ARRIVING IN ...

    Photograph

    Maker: Aspinall, George

    AIF AND BRITISH POW, SELARANG BARRACKS, CHANGI, SINGAPORE, 1942-09-02. TROOPS ARRIVING IN SELARANG BARRACK SQUARE. THIS PORTION OF AREA OCCUPIED BY BRITISH TROOPS. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN SECRETLY BY GEORGE ...

    132937

  11. AIF cemetery, Changi, early days

    Art

    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    Graves with wooden crosses in a jungle clearing, AIF cemetery, Changi, Singapore, in the early days. From a small space cut out of the jungle, the cemetery was gradually extended and laid out with gre...

    ART24494

  12. AIF cemetery, Changi: front entrance

    Art

    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    Griffin shows the entrance path to the AIF cemetery, with gardens and trees on either side. The AIF rising sun symbol strung on two poles at the path entrance.

    ART26477

  13. AIF cemetery, Changi: interior

    Art

    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    In this cemetery are buried all the AIF prisoners-of-war of the Japanese who died in captivity in Changi Goal, Selerang. When this was drawn there was a great difference between the first start of the...

    ART26478

  14. AIF POW theatre, Changi

    Art

    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

  15. AIF seedling nursery, Changi

    Art

    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

  16. AIF theatre, Changi

    Art

    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

  17. Altar at Changi

    Art

    Maker: Spain, Rod

    An altar at the Changi prisoner of war camp. The artist was a prisoner of war from 1942 through to 1945.

    ART92162

  18. Aluminium container : Lieutenant A Y Ellerman, 2/29 Battalion

    Heraldry

    Maker: Unknown

    Engraved aluminium container with a hinged lid. The top of the container has a stippled background and is engraved with a sunflower design and 'A Y ELLERMAN'. The back of the container is engraved wit...

    REL31565

  19. Aluminium plaque : Private W C Davis, 2/18 Battalion, AIF

    Heraldry

    Maker: Davis, Walter Charles

    An aluminium plaque cut in the shape of Australia. Engraved onto the plaque are the maker's details ‘N.X. 40190 PTE. DAVIS W. C. COY. 2/18 BN. CHANGI 15-2-42.', and the names of his relatives, ‘UNCLE ...

    REL33300

  20. A 100 metre hut, Changi

    Art

    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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