Selarang buildings

Place Asia: Singapore
Accession Number ART26473
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 17.6 x 25.7 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description watercolour and gouache over pencil
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi, Selarang Barracks
Date made c 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

Occupied by NCO prisoners-of-war captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. The buildings were previously part of Selarang Barracks occupied by the British troops garrisoning Singapore. The artist lived for the first 6 months in the top room on the extreme right.

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