Hospital surroundings and burial party, Changi

Place Asia: Singapore, Changi
Accession Number ART26480
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 30.5 x 38 cm (irreg.)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description brush and pen and ink, pencil on paper
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Improvised trailer used as as a hearse, carrying a dead soldier swathed in the Union Jack flag. The burial cortege is passing a row of atap huts at the Changi prisoner of war camp.