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Main yeast distribution centre, Selerang
Art
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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Mobile workshop
Art
Maker: Thake, Eric
No 26 Repair and Salvage Unit; general view of mobile workshop operated by 26 RSU, RAAF.ART90134
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Munitions trainees wanted!
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Maker: Unknown Defence Training, Education Department Unknown
Australian Second World War poster advertising for men to train and work in munitions industry (under Manpower regulations these positions were 'protected', men with these skills could not easily join...ARTV02384
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Munitions trainees wanted!
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Maker: Unknown Defence Training, Education Department Unknown
Australian Second World War poster advertising for men to train and work in munitions industry (under Manpower regulations these positions were 'protected', men with these skills could not easily join...ARTV01083
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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
Art
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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Night vision
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Maker: McDuff, Jennifer
Infra-red sights which detect movement by intensifying the night light during combat. Two 'identity discs' made from printing plates are beneath the photo etching. The work comments on the enduring ...ART90155
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No. 1 Forge (Commonwealth ordnance factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
No. 1 Forge (Commonwealth Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong). Ordnance workshop, forge, civilians, technology, tools and machines, unidentified men in forging team. 1500 tons hydraulic press, porter bar, ...ART22205
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No 1 projectile shop (Commonwealth Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
As the Second World War escalated, and men began to enlist, women took their place in the factories. Women became the dominant workforce in the munitions factories at Maribyrnong. They wore overalls...ART22141
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Ordnance workshops, Cambrai Road
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers preparing and working with field guns and ordnance at a workshop near Bapaume. The image shows a view of part of the ordnance workshop, with ruined buildings in...ART02258.006
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Percy Vere no.15
Art
Maker: Mendoza, Montague Philip Ministry of Labour and National Service and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
one of a series of cautionary posters from the Ministry of Labour and National Service and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, depicting workers observing (or not observing) safety and ...ARTV01772
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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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Raising the navigation transmitter, Suai
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Maker: Amor, Rick
Depicts three Australian soldiers (two not wearing shirts) raising the navigation transmitter in Suai, East Timor. Rick Amor was appointed official artist, East Timor, in 1999 and spent time with the ...ART91049
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recto:Glisy; verso: Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
A drawing of a field artillery gun at Glisy, 11 July 1918 on the recto. On the verso a page of sketches of field artillery, artillery barrels and range finders. From the artist's sketchbook covering t...ART19796.001
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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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Repairing turbines, HMAS Stuart
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Maker: Norton, Frank
HMAS Stuart's engine room staff and men from the depot ship, HMS Woolwich preparing to lift the casing from the port turbine to inspect damage to the blades, Alexandria, Egypt.ART29042
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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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Salvage dump, Port Moresby
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Maker: Thake, Eric
The painting shows aircraft components and wreckage at an American salvage dump, Port Moresby, New Guinea. The painting was made from sketches drawn in December 1944 at the dump a mile or two beyond '...ART26788
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Searchlight
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Maker: Leist, Fred
A group of soldiers and an officer are depicted near a lit anti-aircraft searchlight on the Western Front. The powerful beam of the searchlight streaks diagonally across the picture plane, contrasting...ART02928
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Sections of buoyancy tank and floating caissons, Sydney graving dock
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
Built in the early 1940s to accommodate capital ships, the Captain Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island in Sydney was one of the greatest civil engineering projects in Australia up to that time. Seen as...ART30254
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Shell filling Section (High Explosives Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a sketch of unidentified workers at bench, Shell Filling Section, High Explosives Section, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong.ART29459
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103 Signal Squadron Commemorative Painting
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Maker: Menzies, Robert
This artwork commemorates the operational history of 103 Signal Squadron from 1965–2015. It was painted to mark their 50 year anniversary by Robert Menzies, a former member of 103 Signal Squadron. Men...AWM2019.1138.1
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Sketches made in the Paper Room (Fuse Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts sketches of unidentified women working in Fuze Section, rubber bucket, hand press, barrels containing paper collars, working a foot press, paper rolling, government agencies, Commonwealth Expl...ART22613
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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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Soldering bay (Cartridge Bundling Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a painting of unidentified women at work bench, using electrical soldering irons, Cartridge Bundling Section, government agencies, Commonwealth Explosives Factory.ART22137
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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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Stamping components for diesel engines (Commonwealth ordnance factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts an unidentified women stamping components for Diesel engined, Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22586
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Sterilizing and medium making, Changi
Art
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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Sugar refinery, Pozieres
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Depicts the damaged remains and wreckage of sugarbeet processing and refining plant at Pozieres, on the Western Front in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fr...ART02308
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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
Art
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 engine room, HMAS Condamine
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Maker: Norton, Frank
In this work Norton's figures are dwarfed by a man made environment of metal and glass. Norton is obviously fascinated by the workings of the boat, and the smooth and orderly fashion in which these m...ART40049
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The German A4 Rocket (B955 C955)
Film
An Air Ministry film produced by AKS dealing in detail with the manufacture, assembly and operation of the German Army A4 Rocket also known as the V2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2 = Retaliation Weapon 2). Film ...F03318
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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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Three 'Turn of the Century' ABC Radio Programs featuring Dr Peter Stanley discussing aspects of Australia's military involvement in war and peacekeeping throughout the 1900s
Sound
Maker: Stanley, Peter Evans, Tritia ABC Radio
PROGRAM 1: Dr Stanley discuses attitudes to war and Australia's committment to war; Australian's went to the Boer War (South Africa) with idea that war was romantic and adventurous but during the cent...S02107
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Torpedo workshop, HMAS Hobart
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Situated abaft the second funnel are the torpedo tubes and workshop. In the drawing one 'fish' has been brought in for overhaul, the other is to be greased and returned to the tubes. Compressed air is...ART21746
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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