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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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'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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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 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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Concert party, Changi camp, 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Four members of a concert party perform on a makeshift stage. Murray Griffin was an official war artist appointed in 1941 with 8th Division AIF in Malaya. He was prisoner of war at the fall of Singapo...ART24467
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Cutting firewood for Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men of the AIF Forestry unit cutting wood. This work party was established in the very early days of the men's captivity, as wood for fuel for cooking and wood for structures of the camp were required...ART24476
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Digging bore hole latrines, Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men using improvised auger to dig bore-hole latrines, a necessity in a camp that housed thousands of men.ART24493
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Education centre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
In the early days of their internment and before they were required by the Japanese to work, the majority of the men of the 8th Division who had been captured at the fall of Singapore, passed many of ...ART26486
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Electric rice grinder, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men from 8 Division Ammunition Sub-Park and left to right: Private W F Kelly, Private A J Cooper, Private L M Bover, Corporal J Warren. The inset figure is Private L J Slee who designed the grinder us...ART25089
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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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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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Grass extract shed, Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing two Australian POW men in Changi prison crushing and soaking grass for beri beri preventitive. The prisoners received few medicines from the Japanese and had to experiment with their own mixtu...ART24471
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Inside Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Australian men sawing log with crosscut saw on a saw horse with an improvised trailer lying nearby. The wood would form a part of the camp, such as a hut, for the POWs. Physical work such as this was ...ART24472
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Looking towards home
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Weary Australian prisoners of war, after climbing to the top of a water tower in Changi POW Camp, gaze across the seas around Singapore towards home. View to south-east from top of water tower at Chan...ART24470
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Pantomime production, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Scene from 'Dick Whittington' pantomime, which was written by Leslie Greener, produced by John Wood. The actors from left to right are Charlie (Chas) 'Sexy' Wiggins, unknown, unknown, Doug Peart, unkn...ART24474
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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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Pte 'Jock' Campbell smokes the fish
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
By running smoke through a metal locker, the nearly-rotten fish issued as rations were preserved and given a more edible flavour. Private 'Jock' Campbell, like many others, wears an artificial leg man...ART25075
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Repairing trailer, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A portion of a motor vehicle, the engine of which ad been hidden in pieces by prisoners, so that, in an emergency a moveable vehicle could be got ready. In its present condition it is used as a manual...ART26490
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Rice grinding, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts two unidentified men using improvised rice grinder. An old native stone mill made to work more easliy with a lever, Changi, Singapore, 1943.ART26522