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A cholera case, Changi
Art
Maker: Chalker, Jack
An emaciated cholera victim lies propped against a wall at Changi prisoner of war camp, Singapore.ART90852
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Action at Parit Sulong, January 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This work depicts the fighting at Parit Sulong by the men of the 2/15th Australian Field Regiment. A 25 pounder gun is in the lower right corner. This battle became the scene of a massacre at the hand...ART24477
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Aircraft at Singapore airport with First Aid Nursing Yeomanry canteen
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Maker: Buckmaster, Ernest
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24...ART23382
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Alf Garland
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Maker: Pugh, Clifton
Brigadier Alf Garland, National President RSL, member of 75th anniversary pilgrimage to Anzac Cove. Garland was born in 1932 and graduated from Duntroon in 1953 before going on to serve in Korea, Born...ART29506
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A trailer party passing through a Kampong
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men pushing trailer near a village well with Malay and Chinese children in the foregroundART25087
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Attack on Japanese tanks on the Bakri-Parit Sulong Road
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Reconstruction of action against Japanese tanks by 2/4th Anti Tank Regiment along Bakri-Parit Sulong Road. This was the scene of intense fighting by withdrawing Australian troops as the Japanese rapid...ART27570
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At the pictures
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
A scene on board SS Duntroon during the voyage to Singapore taking personnel of 2 Australian Prisoner-of-War Reception Group to repatriate liberated Australian prisoners-of-war.ART24403
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Battle casualties, Malaya
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Convalescent Depot for rehabilitation of men (all amputees) playing deck golf. It was located in part of barracks formerly occupied by Gordon Highlanders. The workshop run by the prisoners were able t...ART25088
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Brigadier Arthur Varley
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Brigadier Arthur Leslie Varley (NX35005), MC, commanding officer of 2/18 Battalion and later of 22nd Australian Infantry Brigade. Varley was interned in Changi until May 1942 when he was appointed to ...ART26425
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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 Hubert Lucas
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Brigadier Hubert Francis Lucas, OBE, in charge of Administration Headquarters.ART26424
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Cable-laying in a jungle clearing
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Before the introduction of reliable portable radios, army signallers maintained communications by telephone. As shown in this painting, the AIF had to lay the cables connecting positions. Murray Grif...ART24488
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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 Ray Griffin
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX34712 Captain Ray S Griffin, 2/18 Btn, prisoner of war (killed in air raid while prisoner), defence of and, 'A' Force Railway. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of t...ART28403.086
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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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Changi prison camp, early days
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Members of the Australian Imperial Force, 8th Australian Division in Changi prison camp. Of this work he noted; 'I started to paint the life around me. Men showering under the eaves of buildings in ra...ART24480
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Changi trailer party carrying logs
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This party of prisoners-of-war in Japanese hands in Changi POW Camp, are seen carting coconut tree logs into camp for firewood. The logs have been cut just outside the camp by troops of the Australian...ART26488
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Chaplain Matthew Jones
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Matthew Kenneth Jones (NX70156), Senior Chaplain Church of England, 8th Division. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, 1942. Drawn in Changi POW Camp.ART26427
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Chaplain Michael Dolan
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Michael Joseph Dolan, Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain of the AIF 8th Division.ART26423
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Colonel Charles Anderson
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX12595 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson, VC, MC, Commanding 2/19 Btn, 2AIF; defence of Malaya and, Muar River, 'A' Force Railway (also First World War in German East Afri...ART28403.087
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Colonel James Thyer
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Colonel James Hervey Thyer (VX12755), member of General Bennett's staff and GOC1. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at Singapore.ART26431
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Colonel Thomas Hamilton
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX70505 Lieutenant Colonel Thomas, MB ChM, FRACS, FACS, Commanding 2/4 CCS; defence of Malaya and, 'A' Force Railway, (also First World War 30 Btn AIF). The artist, Jim Collins, was a memb...ART28403.085
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Commodore John Collins
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Maker: Baird, John
Commodore (later Admiral Sir) John Collins, RAN, portrait used for cover of 'Woman' magazine, 28 August 1944; Mediterranean Sea, Gulf, Pacific.ART27893
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Cutting boot repair nails, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
'A recital of all the inventions and improvisations would become wearisome; it is hoped that the pictures will show something of the range of activities'. Griffin later turned to depicting the inventi...ART26456
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Cutting up rubber logs for firewood, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Three men from the 2 Australian Imperial Force cutting rubber tree logs with an axe for firewood. Providing firewood for the camp was one of the main activities for the prisoners, as without wood ther...ART26487
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Defeat, Singapore
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Infantryman, his gun emptied of ammunition, looks over his shoulder at a burning building in the background - the Fall of Singapore, February 1942. The surrender of Singapore was one of the largest a...ART22927
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Dutch interior, Changi
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Soldiers from the Netherlands East Indies Army were captured by the Japanese on Java and later transferred to Singapore where they were imprisoned in Changi. Completed shortly after the liberation of ...ART23950
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Entering Singapore
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Maker: Parkin, Ray
A large steamship entering Singapore Harbour, with clouds overhead. A lighthouse on rocks is prominent at right. This print was included in a folio of drypoints that were made from the original drawin...ART90933.014
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First Australian prisoners of war from Malaya arrive in Cairns by catalinas
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Large numbers of Australian prisoners of war are arriving at the wharf in Cairns and being greeted by Australian officers and soldiers in uniform. A genial major reassures a POW who has misplaced his ...ART25628
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Flight Lieutenant Peter Wright, Port Pirie
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of Flight Lieutenant Peter Wright, commanding officer of 54 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, wearing flying jacket and helmet. Flight Lieutenant Peter Wright was previously of 21 Squadr...ART21266
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Frying rice cakes, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Two prisoners of war at the Changi camp frying rice cakes on a makeshift stove consisting of a metal plate , under a native style shelter. This is one of a small collection of works on paper by Murray...ART26489
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Gian Singh (Indian Army)
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
One of the seven Indian prisoners-of-war of the Japanese who escaped while working on the airstrip at Wewak. Four died during their trek and the remaining three were found by Allied troops in poor hea...ART21630
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Gian Singh (Indian Army)
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of Gian Singh, taken prisoner by the Japanese at Singapore, a member of the Indian Army, was transported to New Guinea to work for the Japanese. A few of these soldiers were re-capt...ART21629
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851598 Gnr. Hill, E.J. - skin graft foot
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Two feet, one before and the other after a skin graft. Jack Chalker was serving in the Royal Artillery when he was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thaila...ART90899
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Harry Smith strikes a light
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Portrait of Private Harry Smith, a prisoner of war at the Changi camp in Singapore, seated using flint, tinder and a spinning wheel, to strike a light for the cigarette held by another prisoner seated...ART24485
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Hello, Joe
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A Chinese boy greeting a member of the 8th Australian Division in the manner universal to children in Malaya, the salutation 'Hello Joe!' accompanied by the 'thumbs up' sign. This was before the Japan...ART24479
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HMAS Perth fights to the last, 28th February, 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts HMAS Perth fighting her last battle on 28 February 1942. There were survivors of the sinking of HMAS Perth who were rescued and sent to Changi as prisoners of war, where Griffin, official war...ART24483
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Hold accommodation, en route Java to Singapore
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Maker: Parkin, Ray
A full hold of prisoners of war travelling in a ship from Java to Singapore. This print is included in a folio of dry points that were made from the original drawings that Ray Parkin entrusted to Wear...ART90933.012
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Interior of St Paul's Church, Havelock Road Labour Camp, Singapore; verso: Exterior of St Paul's Church
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Interior of St Paul's Church, with raftered roof, nave and pews. Verso: exterior of St Paul's Church, with grass roofed building, figure at right, and structual notes.ART91806
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Interior of the artist's hut, Havelock Road labour camp, Singapore
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Seated figure in artist's hut looking out towards other hut interiors. The huts were one metre width per man. Chalker lived in the upper part of the hut, alive with bed bugs and lice. The hut was in H...ART91844
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Japanese civil internment camp at Jurong, Singapore
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Maker: Buckmaster, Ernest
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24...ART23384
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Lieutenant Charles Thompson
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Lieutenant Charles O Thompson, 8 Div Postal Unit. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginning...ART28403.041
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Anderson
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Maker: Godson, John Barclay
Depicts a portrait of NX12595 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson, VC, MC. Served during the 1914-18 War with British forces in East Africa against German led Askari, and was awarded the...ART31764
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Anderson VC MC
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson (NX12595), VC, MC, 2/19 Australian Infantry Battalion at Muar River. Taken prisoner by the Japanese.ART26436
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kappe
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Henry Kappe (VX48789), Commanding officer 8 Division Signals and General Staff 2 (Operations). Taken a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese.ART26437
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Osborn
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Harwood Osborn (VX42966), Senior Surgeon in Charge 2/13 Australian General Hospital, Australian Army Medical Corps. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japane...ART26442
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Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Galleghan
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick G Galleghan, DSO, ED, commanding officer of the 2/30th Battalion of the 8th Division. 'Black Jack', as he was known, was given command of the AIF prisoners in August 1942 ...ART25070
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Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Galleghan
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick G Galleghan, DSO, ED, commanding officer of the 2/30th Battalion of the 8th Division. 'Black Jack', as he was known, was given command of the AIF prisoners in August 1942 ...ART26547
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Lieutenant Colonel George Ramsay
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX34999 Colonel George Ernest Ramsay, Commanding 2/30 Btn; defence of Malaya and, 'A' Force Railway. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to con...ART28403.084
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Lieutenant Colonel George Ramsay
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Depicts a portrait of NX34999 Lieutenant Colonel George Ernest Ramsay, ED, a prisoner of war of the Japanese captured at the fall of Singapore. He was Commanding Officer of the 1000 men of "A: Force, ...ART28535.018
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Lieutenant Colonel Hedley Summons
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Hedley Francis Summons (VX40219), Commanding 2/9th Australian Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall...ART26447
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Lieutenant Colonel Leon Stahle
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Leon Rossiter Dalgleish Stahle (VX24581), Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Stores. Taken prisoner by the Japanese.ART26434
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Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Bryne
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Leslie James Austin Byrne (NX34829), Commanding Australian Army Service Corps. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26443
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Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Pond
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Austin Frank Pond (VX44770), OBE, Commander 2/29 Battalion at Muar River. Taken a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26440
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Lieutenant Colonel William (Cotter) Harvey
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of General physician Lieutenant Colonel William Cotter Burnell Harvey (NX70668) of Australian Army Medical Corps, 2/10 Australian General Hospital. Taken a prisoner-of-war by the Ja...ART26441
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Lieutenant Max Shean
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Lieutenant Max H Shean, DSO and Bar, Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1941 went overseas to serve in ships of the Royal Australian Navy on Gibraltar convoys. He was then posted to special duties with th...ART27531
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Major Campbell
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Major Peter Campbell, 8 Div Headquarters; defence of Malaya and, Railway. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand R...ART28403.088
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Major Phillip Head
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Major Phillip Lyburn Head (NX34763), Deputy Assistant Adjutant General and Legal Staff of Australian 8th Division. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26448
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Matron Vivian Bullwinkel
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Maker: Bourne, Shirley
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel AO, MBE, ARRC, ED (1915-2000) served with the 8th Division’s 2/13th Australian General Hospital. She was the sole survivor of the infamous Banka Island massacre an...ART28389
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Men of F and H Force on return to Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A group of figure studies of emaciated men and their limbs and torsos. The figures are of men returned from the Burma-Thailand railway. This is one of a small collection of works on paper by Murray Gr...ART26514
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Murray Griffin
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Portrait of official war artist Murray Griffin in uniform. Griffin was the first member of the Contemporary Art Society to be appointed an official war artist. In November 1941 he arrived in Singapore...ART22926
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25-pounders in action at Gemas, 15 January 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
At this stage the guns of "C" Troop, 30th Battery, 2/15th Australian Field Regiment, here depicted, are ahead of the infantry, firing at 300 yards at Japanese advancing through the rubber plantation. ...ART24498
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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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Private Cyril Croft
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait Private Cyril Croft (VX39686), 2/29th Australian Infantry Battalion. Originally from Coventry, England (b.1903) Croft enlisted on 3rd January 1941 at Royal Park Victoria. He served ...ART26451
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Reunion at Changi
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Showing one of the members of 8th Australian Division greeting one of his countrymen who had just arrived in Singapore to release and succour those who have been incarcerated in the Gaol at Changi, th...ART23949
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Samuel (Jack) Barton
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX30078 Sergeant Samuel John 'Jack' Barton, 2/15 Fd Regt; defence of Malaya and, Segamat, Muar River. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to co...ART28403.038
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Sapper Albert West
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Sapper Albert Edward Gay West (VX31236) of 2/10 Field Company. Prisoner of war with Griffin in Changi.ART28986
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Selarang
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Selarang Barracks of the Changi camp compound. The AIF were quartered in this area for majority of their time in captivity. The building in the foreground of this work housed the 8th Division Signals.ART26469
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Sergeant Geoffrey Cyril Bingham
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Sergeant Geoffrey Cyril Bingham (NX32437), 8 Division Signals. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. After his liberation, Bingham was awarded a Militar...ART26452
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Sergeant Paddy Quirk
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
One of the Australian who were inmates of Changi Goal as prisoner-of-war of the Japanese, and who was with the forestry group at its beginning and worked right through. Sergeant Paddy Quirk (VX48296),...ART26491
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Sergeant Walter "Wally" Brown, VC
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Sergeant Walter Ernest Brown, VC, DCM, (VC awarded for actions at - Accroche Wood), (later also 2/15th Field Regiment, 2 AIF) 1928; 20th Infantry Battalion.ART09490
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Singapore Harbour
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Maker: Parkin, Ray
A large Chinese junk dominates the background, with a warship at the left. In the foreground is a small rowing boat with two figures on board wearing Chinese hats. Another junk is seen at the right di...ART90933.015
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Sister Francis Taylor
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Sister Francis Grace Lavinia Taylor, NFX70502, AANS, 11th Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Madang, New Guinea (previously also served with 2/10 AGH).ART22120
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Sister Margaret Anderson
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Maker: Hanke, Henry
This portrait depicts VX63845 Lieutenant Margaret Irene Anderson, 2/10 Australian General Hospital. Anderson was awarded the George medal for bravery during the evacuation of Singapore in MV Empire St...ART22211
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St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A few days before the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, on the 12th February, St Andrew's Cathedral was cleared of its seats and taken over by 2/9th and 2/10th Field Ambulances. The Cathedral buildin...ART26531
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Study for 'Interior of the artist's hut, Havelock Road Labour Camp, Singapore'
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Seated figure looking out from interior of a bamboo hut; study for the painting 'Interior of the artist's hut, Havelock Road Labour Camp' (ART91844). Hut interior. Havelock Road Labour Camp, Singapore...ART91805
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Tahor Bin Ali
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
A Malayan, Tahor Bin Ali, a sailor from Singapore who was rescued from the British ship M.V. Gordon when it was bombed at Milne Bay. He was injured in the raid and brought to Port Moresby by plane, Ne...ART21591
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The ambush at the bridge over the Gemencheh River, beyond Gemas, 14th January 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
An ambush at the bridge over the Gemencheh River, beyond Gemas, in Malaya on 14 January 1942. In this ambush, which lasted 36 hours, over 1000 Japanese were killed and less than 50 Australians were k...ART24500
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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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Warrant Officer 2 John Cox
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Warrant II John Fabian Cox (NX58736), Headquarters staff, Australian Army Survey Corps, 8th Australian Division. Cox became a prisoner-of-war following the fall of Singapore and ...ART26450
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Water queue, en route Java to Singapore
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Maker: Parkin, Ray
A group of soldiers, wearing only shorts, queuing for water on the ship, en route from Java to Singapore. This print is included in a folio of drypoints that were made from the original drawings that ...ART90933.011
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We're going to the ball!
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Maker: Sprod, George Napier
Second World War illustration of three women. One of the women has been drawn to represent Cinderella, she is wearing rags and has bare feet. The other two women are drawn to represent the ugly step...ART92211
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Withdrawal from Parit Sulong
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Australian soldiers withdrawing from Parit Sulong on the Muar River during the defence of Malaya and Singapore. A scene typical of many in the fight down the Peninsular. Troops, being cut off by Japan...ART26529