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Abdul again
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This is the original poster 'Abdul again', for an Australian show produced in 1942 at the non labour prisoner of war camp, Fort 15, Stalag 20A. Created with a strong graphic design, including decorat...ART29544
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A captured Japanese naval civilian, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Sketched portrait of a captured Japanese naval civilian in Balikpapan, Borneo. The soldier's name, as translated from the Japanese characters written in cursive on the front of this work, is Yataroo I...ART22445
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A3, Cell 23, Changi POW camp
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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
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A Changi night patrol
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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
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Administering Japanese prisoner
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
An Australian serviceman administering medical aid to a Japanese prisoner of war.ART90279
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Admiral Samejima and party going to Sarnauso Island as PW's
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Vice-Admiral Baron Tomoshige Samejima, Commander-in-chief, Japanese Navy, Northern Solomons, travelling on one of the remaining remnants of Japanese sea power from Kahili to Sarnauso Island in the Fau...ART25244
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Aerial view of Changi POW Camp, Singapore Island
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
The buildings were originally the barracks of the Gordon Highlanders, a regiment of the British Regular Army. The square and surrounding buildings were used by the Japanese to house all the Australian...ART28535.001
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Aerodrome POW Camp, Tavoy
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
An attap thatched palm hut at the Aerodrome Prisoner of War Camp. The kitchens can be seen on the right detached from the main building. This was one of a number of Japanese prisoner of war camps in t...ART28535.025
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A fine day at last
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Maker: Brindley, John
Depicts a prisoner of the war relaxing on a chair in the garden between two rows of huts.ART28111
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A folio of drypoints from drawings made in captivity 1942-1945: embossed olive-green faux leather volume containing 35 pages of prints and one watercolour of figures, landscapes and vessels
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Maker: Parkin, Ray
A folio of drypoints from drawings made in captivity 1942-1945 on the Burma-Thailand railway. The cover is embossed olive green paper (faux leather), stitched with green paper and lined with green sho...ART90933
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After Japanese surrender
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Captured Japanese prisoners of war are shown arriving at Wewak for internment after marching under Australian guard for 20 miles.ART29927
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Aftermath
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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
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'After the war', Bougainville bomb scared ruins, Rabaul
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Situated near the site of the old town at Rabaul are the remains of Japanese installations. Japanese parties can be seen cleaning up the mess, New Britain.ART23724
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AIF cemetery, Changi, early days
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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
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AIF cemetery, Changi: front entrance
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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
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AIF cemetery, Changi: interior
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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
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AIF ex-POWs on leave in Princes Street, Edinburgh
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Australians recently liberated from prisoner of war camps in Germany are seen enjoying civilization again after their repatriation to Great Britain en route to Australia. They are pictured taken in t...ART25725
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A Japanese sergeant
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Depicts a portrait of a Japanese Sergeant of the Imperial Japanese Army.ART28535.023
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All the fine young men: My stepfather, Frank, was in the same unit as Eric
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Maker: Evans, Roslyn
This work illuminates how great events in history, such as war, affect the intimate and private parts of a family's history. It contains two sections: screen printed images on paper in the background,...ART29767.003
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Altar at Changi
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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
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[Alten-Grabow prisoner of war camp]
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Maker: Greidenborg, Victor
Depicts a number of buildings, prisoners and a fenced area at Alten-Grabow prisoner of war camp, Germany, during the First World War. The painting was originally donated to the War Memorial in Decembe...ART92193
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[Ambulance wagon]
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Maker: Lambert, George
This drawing of an ambulance of sand wagon is from behind, showing the beds stacked inside the vehicle.ART11393.036
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Ambush of a Japanese tanker in Timor
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Reconstruction by the artist of an incident during the sojourn of Timor of the 2/2nd and 2/4th Australian Independent Companies who carried on guerilla war in the hills of Portuguese Timor and at a cr...ART26343
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[Animals and carts]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Sketches of animals and carts. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter, printmaker and ceramicist. In late 1936 he joined the RAAF and was seconded to the RAF for 5 years, arriving in Britain shortly...ART96109
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Another batch of Jerrys
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a mounted Australian officer with his bayonet rifle stowed on his back, leading a groupe of German soldiers, or 'Jerrys', along a road lined with bomb damaged trees. Standing on the side of th...ART02656.004
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Anzac antics
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This is the original poster 'Anzac Antics' for an Australian show produced in 1942. Fort 15, Stalag 20A was a Non Labour (Nicht Arbeit) camp. As the artist later recalled, "Apart from the incessant ba...ART29545
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Arpad Maleter
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
Depicts portrait of Hungarian soldier, Arpad Maleter, sitting, side profile smoking a pipe, arms crossed, in Gross-Born Army Barracks, Germany. Tibor Binder served in the Hungarian Army Artillery, was...ART27827
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Art & handicrafts exhibition and composition...
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Maker: Ansell
Brightly coloured poster in watercolour and gouache promoting an 'Art and Handicraft exhibition & competition' held in July 1943. The image takes up the whole with the title integrated as a notice pin...ART94123
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A Sagan Goon Box South Side [Germany]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts a Goon Box at a POW camp in Germany, backing onto a forest of trees. Goon Boxes were sentry boxes on stilts, stationed at regular intervals around POW camps in Germany during the Second World ...ART96062
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As off to work we go
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Maker: Kingsley, A
POW cartoon of men going off to work. The name G.F.Hamilton which can be seen on the back of the cart is the name of the man who donated the work.ART28359
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A stringed charpoy our Malayan bed April 1942
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
A comfortable bed with the addition of a blanket, used by the prisoners extensively in Malaya before the fall of Singapore. Given the required material they could be quickly assembled.ART28535.004
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A Turkish prisoner (Bash Shawish, Ghezireh)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of a Turkish prisoner wearing a hat with tassel, long moustache and Turkish shirt. Turkish prisoners in Egypt, lived under perhaps the best conditions of any prisoners during the Fi...ART02800
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Aug 8: Find the Turk
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Maker: Bean, C E W Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
An illustration demonstrating soldier humour. The central figure is a Turkish prisoner, who is being escorted by two Australian soldiers that have taken on a similar appearance to the Turks. August 8 ...ART00022.005
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Australian doctors inspecting Japanese sick reports
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts Australian Medical Officers inspecting Japanese medical records, Dutch Timor.ART26148
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Australian M.O inspecting tropical ulcers at Japanese Marine Hospital
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a scene of Australian Medical Officer inspecting tropical ulcers at the Japanese Marine Hospital, Timor.ART26147
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Australia through the windscreen
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
An unidentified Australian man, possibly 'Lille', stands under a beaming light, his hands resting on a table in front of him and a pipe in his mouth. In the background are a row of faces.ART90378.011
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Bangkok Canal
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Many of the Australian and Allied prisoners-of-war who were sent by the Japanese to work on the Thailand-Burma Railway, passed through Bangkok. After the Japanese surrender, those still in the area sp...ART24419
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Barbed wire and bamboo
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Maker: Unknown Australian War Memorial Unknown
Australian War Memorial advertising poster for the exhibition 'Barbed Wire and Bamboo' of 1976. The central image is of a stuffed toy kangaroo with a joey behind three horizontal lines of barbed wire....ARTV05244
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Beriberi, Chungkai
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Depicts a POW at Chungkai (Kao Poon) in Thailand, a large hospital camp for sick or dying POWs. In this case it is evident that the gastrointestinal system is affected as the patient exhibits a disten...ART90856
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[Bill Jarman, Olflag IIIC]
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Maker: Welch, Jim K
Caricature of William "Bill" Jarman NX7549 drawn while the subject was a prisoner of war in Oflag IIIc (later renamed Stalag 383). It was drawn by fellow prisoner Jim Welch who is believed to have wor...ART96905
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1 BN Officers Mess, Havelock Rd
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Maker: Brindley, John
Depicts a prisoner of war seated reading at a table inside the mess, also at the Working Party Camp, Havelock Rd. The intersection of River Valley Road and Havelock Road, Singapore, was the site of tw...ART28113
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'Britcom Base' labour pool, Kure
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
A large amount of Japanese labour is employed by the occupation forces and casuals and new people signed in are sorted out early in the morning at the pool.ART26378
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British Indian prisoner of war
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Study of Naik Kirpal Singh of 15 Punjab Regiment. He was one of the many prisoners held by the Japanese in Dutch Borneo and released during operations of Balikpapan. Natives reported that many British...ART26213
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Cane crusher, Kalunpe
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Sketch of a crude sugar cane crusher made by the monks of a Buddist monastery a short way out of Kalunpe, Burma.ART28535.031
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Captain K G Mosher
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Maker: Britz, Jock Johnston, Don
Captain K G Mosher as 'Sgt Stout', Kutching POW Camp, Borneo.ART90587
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Captain Tukutchi
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Captain Tukutchi, Japanese prisoner of war.ART29848
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Captured wounded Japanese
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Maker: Flett, James
Captured wounded Japanese soldier. On the jetty of the Residency , BruneiART25481
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Carrathool Pub, Riverina
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
Pencil sketch of the Carrathool Pub. It is positioned on a corner, and a truck is parked nearby on the street. On the other side of the street is a row of telegraph poles and a man is riding a horse.ART90378.003
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[cartoon drawing of Cpl. Komoto]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a cartoon drawing of of the Japanese Corporal Komoto's face, with notes about his capture in Borneo. On the verso are 3 cartoon drawings of Corporal Komoto's face. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-...ART96633
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[Cemetery]
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Maker: Banks, Gillian
Koo-wee-rup; woman digging grave in makeshift cemetery while others carry coffin for burial. This work illustrates the fact that the women POWs often had to bury their own dead.ART28536.004
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Changi
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Maker: Greig, Allister
This drawing shows the view from the corridor looking through the doorway of cell 12 at the Changi Internment Camp, Singapore. There is a single bed and a squat latrine. Allister Greig was a South Au...ART93927
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Chee Yuen Chung
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
A 19 year old Chinese taken by the Japanese from Rabaul, eventually, to Hansa Bay. When the 4th Australian Infantry Battalion arrived and picked up the Chinese, Chee Yuen Chung was able to give much v...ART25195
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Chronic tropical ulcer
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Depicts a study of a foot with a chronic tropical ulcer. Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thailand to co...ART90901
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Chungkai, operating theatre
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
The operating theatre at Chungkai prisoner of war camp hospital during the building of the Burma-Thailand Railway. Jack Chalker was serving in the Royal Artillery when he was captured at the fall of ...ART90842
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Classical concert, Changi
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Maker: Sprod, George Napier
Depicts a classical concert held in Changi, with a soloist violin and piano player on stage in front of an audience.ART29034
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Coconut palms
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Coconut palms growing near a house on the outskirts of the town.ART28535.016
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Colonel A Derham
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Colonel Alfred Plumley Derham (VX13486), MC, ED, Assistant Director Medical Services. He had served in the First World War. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at Singapore, 19...ART26429
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Colonel Wilfred Kent-Hughes
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Colonel Wilfred Selwyn Kent-Hughes (VX26600), KBE, MVO, MC, MID, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General of the AIF 8th Division. Kent-Hughes served as a member of the 7 Infantry Battalion in the...ART26205
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Commemoration: Australian Prisoners of War in Europe and the Pacific
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Maker: Unknown Department of Veteran's Affairs
A poster produced by 'Australia Remembers 1945-1995' to commemorate Australian Prisoners of War in Europe and the Pacific. The main background image is of emaciated survivors at Changi POW camp shortl...ARTV09174
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Convoy, Battle for Crete
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The artist recalled of this sketch, "During the battle for Crete the Germans filled their empty junkers with Allied casualties, flew them back to landing strips in Greece and bought them by road trans...ART29574
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Corporal Geoffrey John Walter Bingham
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Corporal Geoffrey John Walter Bingham (NX51770), DCM, 8 Division signals. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at Singapore. Bingham was awarded his Distinguished Conduct Medal...ART26453
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[Country landscape with houses and cows near Oflag VIB, Germany]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts a number of buildings with red roofs, behind a green fenced paddock containing cows. OFLAG VIB was a POW camp in Dossel, Germany, in use from 1940-45. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter,...ART96061
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Crushing tomatoes for seed, Yanco
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Depicts Italian prisoner-of-war are employed at Yanco, New South Wales, in growing, picking and crushing tomatoes for seed, so that tomato production in Australia can be kept at the required level on ...ART24153
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[Curtis Kittyhawk]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter, printmaker and ceramicist. In late 1936 he joined the RAAF and was seconded to the RAF for 5 years, arriving in Britain shortly before the outbreak of the Se...ART96099
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D3, Bo.36, Changi Prison
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Maker: Greig, Allister
Allister Greig was a South Australian-born commercial artist who served in the first AIF and was a civilian internee in Singapore from 1942 to 1945. He was an amateur magician and was caught by prison...ART26749
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Dick Ashton sketching Japanese Warrant Officer doing batman duties
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Maker: Thompson, Robert
Dick Ashton, most likely official war artist with the Army Military History Section, Julian Richard Ashton, sketches a Japanese prisoner of war undertaking batman duties.ART28711
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Digger's boot
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Maker: Unknown
Chalk carving of a digger's boot. Details of the boot are carved into the surface, including tread, eyelets and stitching. The piece was made by a Turkish prisoner of war who presented it to General...ART16815
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'Digger' you tink you vas going to the dressing station
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
An Australian soldier leads a crying German prisoner of war over to a puddle of water. He seems about to push him in. Gladys Blaiberg didn't work at the Australian Forces canteen until 1917. While it...ART40957
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Dogamuir Bay
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
The 4th Australian Infantry Battalion landed on Dogamuir Bay to relieve the 35th Australian Infantry Battalion. Drawing shows movement of the troops from barge, also a Stinson Cub aircraft taking off ...ART25169
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Durian tree, Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This painting depicts an old tree near the Changi camp gardens under which many of the prisoner-gardeners ate their midday rice. The lush tropical forest of the Malay Peninsula fascinated Griffin. As...ART24468
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Dutch prisoner of war
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Maker: Unknown
Depicts a Dutch prisoner of war dressed in a Russian fur cap, long coat, pantaloons and clogs. The painting was originally donated to the War Memorial in December 1947 by Mr. Robert Emil Luks. R.E.Luk...ART92187
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Dysentery
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Depicts four desperately emaciated servicemen; their protruding ribs and stick thin limbs are mirrored in the bamboo of the hut they rest in. The figure in the foreground has dark circles around his e...ART90849
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Electrotherapy department
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Maker: Thompson, Bert
Depicts a caricature study of two Changi POWs undergoing rehabilitation therapy in the Electro Therapy department. One sits with his legs resting on a crate of tea, his arms outstretched in front of a...ART32377
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Elephant tusk wounds
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
A study of the rectal region with a large elephant tusk wound. Other wounds down the back of the left thigh are also pictured. Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall...ART90925
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Epitomization of SNAFU, Otaki
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Wrecked oil refinery. Otaki is a repatriation area for returning Japanese POW. 2 New Zealand Expeditionary Force Cavalry Division are in control of the centre.ART26385
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Examining Italian prisoners, Libya 1941
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts several Australian soldiers with rifles examining Italian prisoners in Libya, North Africa in 1941.ART28481
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Exposition de tableaux de maitres modernes [Exhibition of paintings by modern masters]
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Maker: Poulbot, Francisque PARIS : GALERIE GEORGES BERNHEIM, 1916 (PARIS : DEVAMBEZ) Devambez Imprimerie
Depticted behind a barbed wire fence of a German prison camp, a French soldier sketches as he watches the German guards supervising other prisoners unloading packages, presumably of clothing. This po...ARTV07349
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Ex POWs waiting for transport
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
A group of ex POWs are waiting for Transport in Changi, Singapore. Changi was the main prisoner-of-war camp in Singapore where some 14,972 Australians captured at the fall of Singapore were imprison...ART22924
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Ex prisoners-of-war waiting to leave Changi
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Australian troops who had been prisoners-of-war in the hands of the Japanese for three and a half years are shown patiently waiting for transport to take them from Changi prison camp, where they had b...ART24404
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Ferenc Torr
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
German Army Hungarian soldier in army barracks, Gross-Born Army Barracks, Germany. Red stripe on sleeve indicates that they were eligible for officer school. Subject is Hungarian officer cadet. Note: ...ART27847
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[Figure and head studies]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Figure studies of a man sitting and male heads. The page has a German Army stamp of approval. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter, printmaker and ceramicist. In late 1936 he joined the RAAF and w...ART96098
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[Figures around a table]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Sketch of men sitting around a table. The page has a German Army stamp of approval. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter, printmaker and ceramicist. In late 1936 he joined the RAAF and was seconde...ART96107
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Figures behind wire
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Maker: Winzer, Charles
Depicts a young man standing behind wire fence with a group of men behind him. Lieutenant Charles Winzer was a POW at Ruhleben (racecourse) Berlin 1914-18 period. In September 1914, about forty Britis...ART19343
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[Figure studies]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Figure studies of sitting men. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter, printmaker and ceramicist. In late 1936 he joined the RAAF and was seconded to the RAF for 5 years, arriving in Britain shortly...ART96097
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First Lieutenant Genzo Watanabe
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts a portrait, in right profile, of First Lieutenant Genzo Watanabe, a Japanese staff officer at the prisoner of war compound in Ranau, Borneo during the Second World War.ART22987
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First POW Camp, Mergui, Burma
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
The building shown is of reinforced concrete construction; a four window room in the building was used to house 100 prisoners of war. This camp was considered one of the worst Japanese POW camps. Alth...ART28535.007
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F.M.I. Sisters of Vunapope
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Maker: Hilli, Lisa
'At the risk of their own lives, the Daughters of Mary Immaculate ( Filae Maria Immaculata - F.M.I.) Sisters dedicated themselves to providing locally grown produce to Australian, European and Unserde...AWM2019.141.1
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Foot - French R.M. tropical ulcer contraction
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Watercolour sketch of a foot with a tropical ulcer contraction. Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thailan...ART90897
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For all the smell we aren't so dead
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
A man is walking along playing what looks like a clarinet. Jumping off the ground at his feet are some fish, while in the background are some hot water boilers.ART90378.013
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For Weary
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Maker: Parkin, Ray
This page contains a book dedication to "Weary" Dunlop, for a folio of drypoints and one watercolour from drawings made in captivity 1942-1945 on the Burma-Thailand railway. Dunlop was an eminent surg...ART90933.034
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Four types of Japanese
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Sketches of four privates of the Imperial Japanese Army. These sketches were done to illustrate the different types that make up the Japanese Forces.ART28535.024
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Fred Anderson
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Maker: Milgate, Eric Lovell
Portrait depicting NX46224 Fred E Anderson, 2nd A.I.F, probably drawn while a prisoner of war.ART29251
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French. L. ankle lateral view, tropical ulcer
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Depicts a lateral view of a tropical ulcer on the left ankle of a fellow prisoner. Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a pa...ART90883
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French Officer, ex Prisoner of War
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Portrait of an unidentified French officer, wearing a kepi. He is a recovered prisoner of war.ART26621
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French prisoner
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Drawing of an unidentified French prisoner of war at Stalag 20A, Torun, Poland.ART29573
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Frigyes Raffay
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
Depicts a portrait of Frigyes Raffay, an Hungarian soldier in Gross-Born Army Barracks, Germany. Tibor Binder served in the Hungarian Army Artillery, was captured by the Americans and held a POW in Ro...ART27830
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Furniture (by POW)
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Maker: Brindley, John
Depicts seven groups of make-shift furniture acquired or made by prisoners of war at the River Road Camp: a plank chair, a rope swinging bed, a suspended slat bed, a cigarette lighter, a dressing tabl...ART28114
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Gaiety theatre
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Maker: Brindley, John
Depicts the interior at a camp theatre designed by the artist/donor as 'Camp Architect' at Changi, with a group of prisoners of war on the stage.ART28112
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Gefangen [Captured]
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Maker: Grosz, George
Depicts tired and exhausted German soldiers who have been captured as prisoners of war, walking down a road in a bedraggled fashion. A dead soldier lies beside the road and a landscape with houses and...ART19997
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[George McNeilly conducting class]
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Maker: Sprod, George Napier
Amongst the many activities held in Changi to alleviate boredom, was a conducting class held by George McNeilly, a member of the YMCA unit.ART29033