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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