Accession Number | P04279.001 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
Maker |
Unknown |
Place made | Singapore: Changi |
Date made | 1946 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 Period 1940-1949 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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An unidentified British officer (left) and sergeant (right) standing on a platform immediately ...
Description
An unidentified British officer (left) and sergeant (right) standing on a platform immediately below the trapdoor and gallows, next to the body of a Japanese war criminal who has just been executed by hanging on the gallows at Changi Gaol. His hands tied behind his back and he wears all white, including a hood over his head.
- The body of a Japanese war criminal as seen through the trapdoor of the gallows immediately after ...
- An unidentified British officer releasing his hold on a Japanese war criminal as he falls to his ...
- An unidentified hangman positions the noose around the neck of a Japanese war criminal as he is ...
- The gallows house in Changi Gaol where convicted Japanese war criminals were executed by hanging. ...
- Hangman's noose suspended above the trapdoor of the gallows in Changi Gaol where convicted ...
- A convicted Japanese war criminal being led up a ramp to the gallows in Changi Gaol where he was ...
- A hangman placing a noose over the hooded head of a convicted Japanese war criminal immediately ...
- An Assistant Executioner (either of the British or Australian Army) having strapped the ankles of ...
- A British officer (left) and sergeant (right) supporting the hooded dead body of an executed ...
- A British officer (centre) releasing his hold on a hooded Japanese war criminal as the prisoner ...