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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 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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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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A two star private
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
A sketch of a typical two star private of the Imperial Japanese Army. Privates have either one, two or three stars on their jacket lapels and a Lance Corporal has a plain gold star.ART28535.022
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Australian captain of a liberator (Pilot Officer Leslie Hendy)
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a portrait of A410333 Pilot Leslie Arthur Hendy, Australian captain of a B24 Liberator, No 159 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force, Burma campaign.ART22386
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British products fight in Burma
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Multi Machine Plates Ltd
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Supply. It depicts photographs of a variety of scenarios that took place during the general campaign to protect India from the Japanese advanc...ARTV06438
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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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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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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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Golden Pagoda, Tavoy
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
This temple is covered with gold leaf, when under the intense sun of the tropics reflects the sunlight to such an extent as to make the pagoda visible for many miles. Nor is the beauty lost at night, ...ART28535.021
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55 Kilo Camp, Burma
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Depicts a painting of the "55 Kilo Camp Burma Thailand Railway, at the end of the lean to is the operating "theatre. Jack Chalker was serving in the Royal Artillery when he was captured at the fall of...ART29421
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Liberators of 159 Squadron RAF dive - bombing railway station, Ye, Burma
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Maker: Dargie, William
Liberators of 159 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force which contains the Australian pilots, navigators, wireless operators and air-gunners amongst it's members, taking part in a raid on the railway st...ART22160
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Lieutenant Colonel Sir Albert Coates
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Albert Ernest Coates, Kt, OBE, MD, MS, FRCS, Medical Officer, 8th Australian Division ex-prisoner of war of the Japanese. Australian Army Medical Corps (AA...ART27000
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Native home, Tavoy Drome
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
A hut situated on the outskirts of the aerodrome. This hut is built on a sapling frame work covered with woven bamboo sheet and thatched with attap (palm fronds).ART28535.027
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Nose and wing of a B-24
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Maker: Dargie, William
One of the ground crew of No. 215 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force can be seen working on the outer motor of the starboard wing of a Liberator bomber after it's return from an operational flight o...ART23195
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Oven and stew pots
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Interior of the prisoners' kitchen at the Tavoy Prisoner of War Camp which housed the Australian and Allied prisoner of war, captured during the capitulation of Singapore. In the background is the bri...ART28535.015
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Pagoda, Tavoy
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Coconut and gula palms form an ideal setting for this pagoda which is surrounded by smaller pagodas at the base. A feature of these pagoda is the ornamental tops which contain a number of small bells ...ART28535.020
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Planes grounded by the 'Chota' monsoon
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Maker: Dargie, William
'Chota in the Urdu language means 'little' and the chota monsoon is the week or ten days of rain and high winds which breaks the winter spell of fine weather in the Arakan in January of every year. Th...ART23910
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Pony cart, Tavoy
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
A sketch of a pony cart used extensively in this area for the transport of people and goods. These carts have entirely be replaced the rickshaws in this district, but in Mergui and other areas of the ...ART28535.019
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Position of ileostomy bottle on a patient
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Nakom Paton, - Railway, Far EastART90904
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Proctoscomy amoebic dysentery
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Three keyhole sketches of amoebic dysentery, labelled 1. 'a' and 'b', and 2. 'a'. Amoebic dysentery was an acute disease caused by ingesting contaminated substances and characterised by severe diarrhe...ART90916
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Pushing a skip, Tavoy Aerodrome
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Australian and Allied prisoners of war, captured by the Japanese Army at Singapore, pushing a skip load of ballast while working on the extension to the aerodrome.ART28535.026
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Reclining Buddha, Tavoy
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
A sketch of the famous "Reclining Buddha" near the rice mills. The Buddha is approcimately 120' long. Buddha is believed to have died resting on his side with his head propped up on his right hand and...ART28535.017
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recto: Rear verandah Australia House, Ye; verso: not titled [unfinised sketches]
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
The rear verandah of one of the dirty, dilapidated huts which was used as a staging camp for Australian and Allied prisoners of war during their shift from Tavoy up country to work on a Japanese railw...ART28535.030
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Sabotage, Tavoy
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Burnt and wrecked buildings in the business centre of the town. In many cases only the walls remained of the brick and concrete buildings when the Japanese Forces captured the town. It is thought the ...ART28535.013
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Study for On the Thailand Railway
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Sketch for Australian Prisoners of War on the Thailand-Burma Railway.ART29539
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Study for On the Thailand Railway
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Sketch for Australian Prisoners of War on the Thailand-Burma Railway.ART29538
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Tamarkan Bridge, Burma
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Allied prisoners of war (POWs) engaged in bridge building at Tamarkan, fifty five kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk) and five kilometres south of Kanchanaburi (Kanburi). The sc...ART22928
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Tavoy school
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
An imposing concrete building, formerly the main school of the area which was taken over by the Japanese Army and used as the main prisoner of war camp in the area, to house Australian and Allied pris...ART28535.014
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The Fight for Freedom Exhibition is Coming
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Maker: Unknown
Little is known about this all-text Second World War poster. It aims to promote an exhibition called "Fight for Freedom" and judging by the nature of the items in the exhibition as described on the po...ARTV02311.002
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The "Fight for Freedom" Exhibition is Coming
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Maker: Unknown
Little is known about this all-text Second World War poster. It aims to promote an exhibition called "Fight for Freedom" and judging by the nature of the items in the exhibition as described on the po...ARTV02311.001
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Valley of the Khwae Noi River
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Depicts a scenic view of the Khwan Moi River in Burma.ART22929
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Warrant Officer Francis Gould
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of A414671 Warrant Francis Harrison Gould, pilot, No 134 Squadron Royal Air Force, shown carrying his parachute and oxygen mask out to his plane, Ratnap, India.ART23156
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Ye Burma
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
One of the dirty dilapidated huts as temporary accommodation for Australian and Allied prisoners of war, captured at Singapore, during their move from Tavoy to work in the Japanese railway project. Ap...ART28535.028