POW Quarters, Selerang

Place Asia: Singapore, Changi
Accession Number ART26472
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 17.6 x 25.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description watercolour over pencil on paper
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi, Selarang Barracks
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Elegant but crowded and no mod cons. Selerang was near the famous Changi Gaol, another POW Camp. Both camps were occupied at various times by Australian prisoners-of-war. Buildings of Selarang Barracks, used to house the Australian prisoners of the Japanese.

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