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AIF POW theatre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This building had been a workshop and was used for about a year by an Australian POW Concert Party until it was required for accommodation. All seats were made from palm logs. Rear stalls made of rubb...ART26496
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AIF theatre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This drawing depicts an entertainment called '203' in progress with three of the cast on the stage - John Wood, Jack Smith and Harry Smith. The entertainment was suprisingly lavish considering the lac...ART26497
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A 100 metre hut, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men relaxing outside an atap hut, which is made from split bamboo, with the sides of hut raised for ventilation in November 1944. The garden beds out the front are those of individual prisoners. In 1...ART25063
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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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Bookbinding, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
When the Japanese gave permission for a stock of books to be brought into the camp from Raffles Library in Singapore, their constant repair was essential. This was carried out with odds and ends of ra...ART25062
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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 library
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Stocked with books brought into the prison camp by the men, mainly in the march from Tanglin Camp in 1942. Later the Japanese allowed prisoners-of-war to bring in more books from Raffles Library, Sing...ART26501
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Coconut grove theatre
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Theatre built by POWs at Changi. The theatre became a popular attraction in the camp, and the productions that were staged bacame more and more elaborate over the years the men were in captivity.ART25055
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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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Listening to Music, Y.M.C.A. Hut, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
The YMCA representatives, Mr Ivor Hanger and Mr George Macheily, built this hut of palms logs and attap for recreational purposes and lectures. They were taken prisoners-of-war by the Japanese along w...ART26510