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A Changi working party
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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
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AIF POW theatre, Changi
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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
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AIF seedling nursery, Changi
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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
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AIF theatre, Changi
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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
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A 100 metre hut, Changi
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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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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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Back from Thailand
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Figure studies of recently returned men from the Burma-Thailand railway, with emaciated limbs and bodies, showing their physical condition. Griffin documents the tropical skin diseases that ravaged ma...ART25103
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'Bob' Mutton's hut, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Improvised housing accommodation in Changi prison. The men were housed in an area with buildings not large enough to accommodate them all. They built their own atap huts with what ever materials could...ART25060
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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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Brigadier Duncan Maxwell
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A portrait of Brigadier Duncan Struan Maxwell (NX12610) of the 27th Australian Infantry Brigade.ART26422
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Brigadier Harold Taylor
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Commander of 22nd Australian Infantry Brigade, Brigadier Harold Burfield Taylor, MC, VD (NX34724). Taylor had served in the First World War. When he was imprisoned in Changi, Taylor established and gu...ART26428
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Brigadier Hubert Lucas
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Brigadier Hubert Francis Lucas, OBE, in charge of Administration Headquarters.ART26424
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Broom making, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing various aspects of the manufacture of brooms by Australian prisoners-of-war captured at Singapore. At the time the drawing was made the brooms were made from sliced bamboo, later they were mad...ART26505
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Captain John Vernon
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Griffin has composed this portrait to tell the story of Captain John Murray Vernon (NX34879), MC, of the 2/18th Australian Infantry Battalion. He is posing in front of the Kranji river at the place wh...ART24496
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Captain William Ronald Magarry
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Set against the landscape where Captain William Ronald Magarry, MC, of D Company, 2/26 Battalion was awarded his MC for bravery, Griffin has portrayed the rugged terrain and grim determination of Maga...ART24497
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Carrying in the last log
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Members of work party carrying log for firewood. Collecting firewood was one of the most important requirements, as the prisoners needed the wood for cooking. As the years progressed, the men had to h...ART24475
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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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Changi gaol
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Interior of Changi gaol. In 1944 all the POWs, some 10,000 men, held at Selarang Barracks and surrounds had to move to Changi goal proper, which was designed to accommodate 600 men. 5,000 men were eve...ART25090
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Changi gaol and camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Some of the accommodation provided for officers taken prisoners-of-war at the fall of Singapore. The centre row is the old warders' quarters; the row near the gaol wall and the row nearest artist are ...ART26463