Grass extract shed, Changi camp

Place Asia: Singapore, Changi
Accession Number ART24471
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 43.2 x 53.2 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on cardboard
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
Date made 1942-1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

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 mixtures.