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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
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Sergeant Geoffrey Cyril Bingham
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.”