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A cholera case, Changi
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
An emaciated cholera victim lies propped against a wall at Changi prisoner of war camp, Singapore.ART90852
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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 air gunner (Warrant Officer Herbert Scott)
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of Australian air gunner Warrant Officer Herbert Donald Scott, 30623, 159 Squadron, Royal Air Force, Digri, India.ART23907
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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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Australian Navigator (Pilot Officer Alan Stephens)
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a portrait of A406494 Pilot Alan Richard Maidment Stephens, Observer/Navigator, No 215 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Digri, India.ART23580
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Australian pilot tests his engine and controls (Flight Lieutenant James Franks)
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Maker: Dargie, William
The monsoon is over and on the first fine day the pilots are down at the strip to check up on the condition of their planes. In this sketch the pilot warms up his engine. A member of his ground crew, ...ART22388
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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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Beaching a Catalina at Koggala
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Flying boats beaching at Koggala Lake, Ceylon (Sri-Lanka). The Catalina pictured in the foreground bears the markings JX 336. This Catalina was built by Boeing Canada in Vancouver, Canada, for the RAF...ART25892
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Bridge work, Burma-Thailand railway
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Prisoners building a bridge on the Burma-Thailand railway. Although Griffin volunteered to work on the Burma-Thailand railway, he gave up his spot for a fellow prisoner and remained in Changi. He crea...ART25107
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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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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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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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Caricature of Major Walter Lionel Ekin Smyth
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Maker: Milner, Amies
Depicts a caricature of Major Walter Lionel Ekin Smyth, Manchester Regiment, in profile, wearing a red mess jacket and smoking a pipe. Major Walter Lionel Ekin Smyth (b. South Australia, 1909?) attend...ART92751
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Check up on a Liberator bomber
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Maker: Dargie, William
Fitters checking up on a B-24 Liberator bomber on the morning after the bomber's return from an operational flight over Burma, possibly No 159 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Digri, India.ART23197
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Cholera hospital, Hintok
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
The Cholera hospital in Hintok, Burma-Thailand Railway. Large surrounding trees and shrubs dwarf the hospital tents.ART90845
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Cholera tent, Hintok
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Hintok, - Railway, Far East; prisoners of war camp. 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 Thailand t...ART90844
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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 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 Edward (Weary) Dunlop
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Colonel (Ernest) Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, OBE, MS Melb, FRCS, FRACS. Perhaps Australia's most well known veteran of the Second World War, Edward Dunlop became well-known for his medical work with Austra...ART26999
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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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Dropping supplies by parachute (Flying Officer Francis Hudson and Pilot Officer William Gerard)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Showing a parachute supply container (Mark V ) being dropped from a Dakota of No. 117 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force over Sandoway, Burma. Flying Officer F.H Hudson is kicking out a container t...ART24310
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Eddie Williams
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Australian prisoner of war E T C 'Eddie' Williams, of Nokaning, Western Australia. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-T...ART28403.002
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Flight Lieutenant Brian Snowball
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a portrait of Flight Lieutenant Brian Snowball, pilot, No 258 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, India 1945.ART25920
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Flight Lieutenant David McCormack
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Maker: Hawkins, Sheila
Unfinished portrait of Squadron Leader David William McCormack (400232), DFC, No. 273 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. During the Second World War, Sheila Hawkins worked in the Public Relations ...ART35184
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Flying Officer Colin Betts
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of A402786 Flying Officer Colin Clouderley Betts, pilot, No 258 Squadron Royal Air Force. The pilot wears his parachute harness, pistol and .38 ammunition, escape kit, oxygen mask and interco...ART23157
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Flying Officer Frank Kelf
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a portrait of A420390 Pilot Frank Trevor Kelf, Royal Australian Air Force, No 258 Sqadron Royal Air Force, Ratnap, India.ART23909
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Flying Officer Garnet Burns
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Shows Flying Officer G. Burns, navigator serving with the Royal Australian Air Force, seen taking a bath outside his tent. In the background are fixtures he has salvaged from a crashed Dakota aircraft...ART24261
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Flying Officer Harley O'Regan and Flight Lieutenant A Turnbull
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Flying Officer Harley J O'Regan, Transport Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force pilot serving with the Royal Air Force in Burma, is shown being given an anti-cholera inoculation by Flight Lieutenant A...ART24264
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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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Gal Hussan Khan (Punjabi bearer)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Portrait depicting Gal Hussan Khan, Punjabi bearer (servant), employed by officers of No 117 Squadron Royal Air Force.ART24265
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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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Hospital ward, Burma-Thailand railway
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Gaunt, skeletal figures lying on beds inside a hospital on the Burma-Thailand railway. Griffin's use of light and shade in this work accentuates the physical condition and obvious suffering of the men...ART25104
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Incident during monsoon, Kyaukpyu (Squadron Leader Terence Roberts and Flying Officer Owen Sanders)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
This drawing depicts an incident which occurred in a severe monsoonal storm which swept over the tented camp of No. 117 Squadron, Royal Air Force on the ocean beach at Kyaukpyu, Ramree Island off the ...ART24312
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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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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 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 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 John Williams
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel John, Commanding 2/2 Pioneer Battalion. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the ...ART28403.046
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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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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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Man
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An emaciated prisoner of war, viewed from behind, wearing a hat and torn shorts. The print is included in a folio of drypoints from drawings made in captivity 1942-1945 on the Burma-Thailand railway. ...ART90933.001
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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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Pilot in cockpit of Thunderbolt (Warrant Officer Russell Precians)
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Maker: Dargie, William
A413097 Warrant Officer Russell K Precians, pilot, Royal Australian Air Force, serving with No 258 Squadron, Royal Air Force, seen in the cockpit and canopy of Republic P-47D Thunderbolt aircraft at R...ART22390
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Pilot Officer Robert Cuthbertson
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait depicting Pilot Robert Henry Cuthbertson, A413355, a pilot in the No 134 Squadron, RAAF at Ratnap, India during the Second World War. Robert Henry Cuthbertson entered service on the 17 August...ART24089
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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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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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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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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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Sergeant Kuldip Singh, 6 Indian Company, 1020 Platoon; Royal Indian Army Service Corps
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts a portrait of Sergeant Kuldip Singh, 1020 Platoon, 6 Indian Company, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, serving with Air Dipatch, South East Asia Command, who had made many sorties as a 'chucker...ART24266
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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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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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Supremo (Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Portrait depicting Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, KCVO, CB, DSO, Supreme Allied Commander in Chief, South East Asia Command.ART24262
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Survivors from Thailand
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Drawing of men returned from Burma-Thailand railway. Griffin originally volunteered to go to the railway, thinking conditions might be better. He gave up his spot for another man and remained in Chang...ART25076
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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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Thai food stalls, Ban Pong
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
At the end of 1942 a large force of prisoners-of-war, many of them sick and including a proportion of Australians, left Changi goal for what they believed to be a "rest camp" in Thailand. After a tort...ART25080
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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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The march from Ban Pong
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Reconstruction of march through jungle from work on railway. Soon after the march began the monsoons started. The prisoners trudged hundreds of miles through the rain soaked jungle and ankle deep mud,...ART25077
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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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Warrant Officer Francis Gould
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a portrait of Warrant Officer A414671 Francis Harrison Gould, pilot, serving with No. 134 Squadron Royal Air Force in India, 1945ART26135
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Water Supply problems, Burma (Flight Sergeant Alan Kelly and Warrant Officer Neil Strongman)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
At the forward camp site of 194 Transport Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. To obtain water, a well was sunk and four large drums with the ends cut away were placed end on end in the well and the ...ART24263
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Wing Commander (Dizzy) Crawford
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
This sketch of Wing Commander Crawford, a Canadian and Commanding Officer of 194 Transport Squadron, Royal Air Force, was made shortly before he was killed when his aircraft crashed into a hill on Ram...ART24313
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Wing Commander William McLean
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts Wing Commander W. J McLean, DFC, AFC, Royal Australian Air Force, No. 117 Squadron, Royal Air Force, slumped easily in a camp chair after returning from "dicing with the monsoon," while his pe...ART24267
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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