Sergeant Geoffrey Cyril Bingham

Places
Accession Number ART26452
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 50 x 36.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil on paper
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
Date made c 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

Depicts a portrait of Sergeant Geoffrey Cyril Bingham (NX32437), 8 Division Signals. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. After his liberation, Bingham was awarded a Military Medal for his “bravery and devotion to duty at Endau and Singapore Island.”