General view from Selerang Square

Place Asia: Singapore, Changi, Selarang Barracks
Accession Number ART26511
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 36.3 x 46.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description brush and brown ink and wash over pencil on paper
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
Date made 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

Selarang was the location where the AIF prisoners were originally housed upon their captivity. In mid 1944 all Allied POWs, some 10,000 men, were transferred to Changi gaol proper.