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Action at Parit Sulong, January 1942
Art
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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AIF Malaya memorial
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Maker: Dowie, John Stuart Meridian Sculpture Founders
Statue in memory of the men and women of the AIF Malaya who held up the Japanese advance on Singapore 14 January - 15 Feburary 1942.ART41004
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Air Commodore John McCauley
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Maker: Jones, Vernon
Air Commodore John Patrick Joseph McCauley, CBE, Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Royal Australian Air Force.ART27584
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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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2/13 Australian General Hospital at Johor Bahru
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
The hospital occupied by 2/13th Australian General Hospital at Tampoi, Johor Bahru.ART24416
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Avenge December 7
Art
Maker: Perlin, Bernard Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information US Government Printing Office
This Second World War American poster, which depicts a sailor with a clenched fist and warships among explosions, refers to the surpirse attack by Japanese aircraft on Pearl Harbour on the morning of ...ARTV00660
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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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Beaufighter pilot (Group Captain Edwin Fyfe)
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Maker: Jones, Vernon
Royal Australian Air Force, No 77 Wing; Group Captain Edwin Glen Fyfe, DSO, 77 Wing RAAF, wearing Mae West life jacket and holding goggles; Beaufighter Mk IV in background; defence of, campaignsART27565
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Brigadier Arthur Varley
Art
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
Art
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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Brigadier K Torrance
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
British Brigadier K S Torrance, OBE, MC, General Staff CommandART26426
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Cable-laying in a jungle clearing
Art
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
Art
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 Sir James Bisset
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Maker: Allcot, John
Portrait of Captain Sir James Gordon Partridge Bisset, Kt, CBE, Commodore of Cunard White Star Company Ltd. He commanded SS Queen Mary from 1942, (during the war it was a troop ship carrying 2 Austral...ART27770
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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 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 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 Edward Holmes
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of British Lieutenant Colonel Edward Barclay Holmes, MC, commander of British and Australian troops, after the departure of General Percival from Changi in August 1942.ART26430
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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 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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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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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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Fighting on the edge of a jungle mangrove swamp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a group of unidentified soldiers fighting at edge of jungle and mangrove swamp in the defence of Malaya and Singapore.ART26528
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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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Guns at Mandai, 5th February, 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing "F" Troop, 60 Battery, 2/10th Australian Field Regiment firing its task at 1500 hours. The picture also shows the type of country and native dwellings, Malaya. Work depicting action at Mandai ...ART24499
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Haunted House
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
The Haunted House, Headquarters 8th Australian Division, Johor BahruART24417
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Help England's new homeless
Art
Maker: Warins Unknown Printers Ltd
patriotism; poster depicting a woman holding a baby, ruined buildings beneath, appeals for aid for victims of air raids inARTV02263
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Jeff Harris
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Burma/Thailand prisoner of war Jeff Harris.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 of 194...ART28403.008
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Junglers
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Reconstruction from photograph of troops' activities in Malaya. Two Australian soldiers are on patrol in the jungle.ART30103
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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 Cranston McEachern
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Cranston McEachern (QX6176), Commanding 2/24th Anti-Tank Regiment, RAA at Muar River. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26444
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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: 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 George Warfe
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting VX186 Lieutenant Colonel George Radford Warfe, DSO, MC, served with the 2/6th Australian Infantry Battalion in Libya and Greece in 1941 and in 1942 became commander of the 2/3rd Ind...ART27517
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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 Ian O'Donnell
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Ian John O'Donnell (VX43938), OBE, Commanding 2/10 Field Company, RAE. Taken prisoner by the Japanese.ART26433
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Lieutenant Colonel John (Glyn) White
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel John George Glyn White (VX21434), OBE, Deputy Assistant Director Medical Services, Administrative Headquarters. Taken a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese.ART26438
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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 Robert Webster
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Marriott William Webster (TX2107), MC, ED, Commanding 2nd Australian Convalescent Depot, Australian Army Medical Service. Taken a prisoner-of-war by the...ART26439
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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 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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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 Colonel William Jeater
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel William David Jeater (NX34992), commanding officer of 2/20th Battalion. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese.ART26432
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Lieutenant General Arthur Percival
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Lieutenant General Arthur Ernest Percival, CB, DSO, OBE, MC, General Officer Commanding of British Commonwealth forces during the Battle of Malaya and Singapore. As commanding officer, Percival signed...ART26420
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Lieutenant General Sir Lewis Heath
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Lieutenant General Sir Lewis Heath, KBE, CB, CIE, DSO, MC, the Commander III Indian Corps during the Battle of Malaya and Singapore. He was a prisoner of war at Changi and then removed to Taiwan and t...ART26421
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Major Alexander Thompson
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Alexander Norman Thompson (NX34974), Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, AIF Headquarters, 8th Division. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26446
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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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Malay women and children, drawing for 8th Division book
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A black pen and ink drawing of a group of Malayan women and children carrying baskets and food. It was originally drawn to be included as an illustration in a book about the 8th Division AIF's experie...ART90662
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“67 ½ mile peg, Mersing road”
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Unidentified Australian Medical Officers tending wounded by the roadside. A recess in the jungle which had been built for the purpose.ART24469
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Not titled [Malaya]
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Three Australians under palm trees with sentry in background, Malaya.ART30102
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Not titled [POW carrying water]
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Pen and ink drawing of an emaciated POW carrying water. This work was drawn after the artist was repatriated to Australia after spending three and a half years in Changi POW camp. It was originally ...ART90663
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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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recto: A Changi P.O.W building Feb to May 1942; verso: Tavoy drome, POW Camp
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
One of the well constructed reinforced concrete barrack building of the former Gordon Highlander Barracks, which were built in 1937. This area is now the Changi Prisoner of War Camp and used by the Ja...ART28535.002
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Ron Harding
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Ron Harding, Australian prisoner of war on the Burma-Thailand railway.The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railw...ART28403.004
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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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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 J Russell
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Sergeant John Lewis Russell, QX1899, 2/26 Australian Infantry Battalion, 8th Australian Division. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. Born in Mitchell...ART26449
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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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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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Stan Chesworth
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Australian prisoner of war Albert Stanley 'Stan' Chesworth (1908-1982), NX40905, of Ostemere, Walcha, New South Wales. The artist was a prisoner of war 1943-45 in Malaya, Burma and Thailan...ART28403.003
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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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Thanks to the air force we are safe and free
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Maker: Department of Information & Publicity, Malaya
This Malayan Second World War poster was created to thank the work of Allied air forces in the protection of Malaya. In the upper central section of the poster is an image of an aircraft engine and co...ARTV02213
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Thanks to the navy we sell our tin and rubber
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Maker: Department of Information & Publicity, Malaya
This Malayan Second World War poster depicts four ships, including an aircraft carrier, probably taken from a floatplane or amphibious aircraft. The poster thanks the navy for their role in defending ...ARTV02214
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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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Transport problems in Malaya
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a reconstructed view of transport problems in Malaya, and based on photographs. The artist wrote in a letter on 31 August 1942 of the work '...watercolour of an incident in Malaya...I have no...ART30101
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Warrant Officer 1 Arthur Purdon
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Warrant Officer Class 1 Arthur Henry Mason Purdon DCM (NX67447), Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant, 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese a...ART26445
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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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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
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With the AIF in Malaya
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Maker: White, W S
The AIF in Malaya depicts colour patches of the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces in Malaya around a map. A 'rising sun' badge at the top is flanked by a small image of the Sydney Harbour Bridge...ART32375