A Changi working party

Place Asia: Singapore, Changi
Accession Number ART25051
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 34.7 x 51.2 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description brush and brown ink and wash over pencil
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A group of prisoners of war forming a working party, one carrying a fire bucket to provide fire or a light for cigarettes. A Japanese guard walks amongst them. The men not sent to the Burma-Thailand railway and who remained in Changi formed these parties for various duties needed to keep the camp running. The Japanese also required work parties to build an aerodrome located just outside Changi camp.