Place | Asia: Thailand |
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Accession Number | ART28403.001 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 17.6 x 13.2 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | pencil on paper |
Maker |
Collins, James |
Place made | Thailand |
Date made | 1943-1945 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
Paddy Maloney
This is a portrait of Australian POW Paddy Maloney. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginning of 1943 many prisoners had died and it was clear to their senior officer, Brigadier Arthur Varley, that the number of deaths would only increase. Collins was instructed by Varley to draw "portraits of fellow POWs, some of whom would not survive the war." The drawings - almost 100 of them - were done in secret using rudimentary materials provided by Varley. It was intended that the collection be kept together as a reminder of the men who had died and the suffering endured by the survivors. The artist wrote: 'The big majority of the subjects were AIF personnel; the balance being of other Allied POWs in the same area'.
- Eddie Williams
- Stan Chesworth
- Ron Harding
- Major Rupert Barraclough
- Bill Papworth
- Jeff Harris
- Brigadier Arthur Varley
- Jack Riddell
- D C Howie
- Wal (Bill) Van Doorenmaalen
- William Wells
- N E (Tiger) Lyons
- Nonacker San
- Everard Watt
- Charlie Byford
- Toose Tai
- Captain Arthur Hence
- G I R Watson
- Les A Shepherd
- Jimmy Farnell
- Frank (Shorty) Cameron
- Not titled [Prisoner of war]
- Merv Reid
- Ted Johnston
- Raymond Bonney
- Bill Prenter
- Arnold Ainsworth
- Les Tolliday
- Lionel Crow
- Stracey McKenzie
- Lofty Gersbach
- O A Herbert
- Stewart Handasyde
- Ming Elworthy
- Samuel (Jack) Barton
- AA (Happy) Hawkins
- Charlie Taiohara
- Lieutenant Charles Thompson
- K M Mitchell
- Jack Shrimpton
- Ronald Booth
- Lester Huxley
- Lieutenant Colonel John Williams
- Pat Levy
- Lieutenant John Varley
- Warrant Officer Alexander McLean
- Captain W M Drower
- Wally Stillwell
- Cor Punt
- Cliff Cosh
- William (Bill) Paterson
- Owen Byrne
- Harry Johnson
- Captain Tim Godlee
- Ian Wynne
- M J Macdonald
- William Davies
- Jack de Rose
- Bob Hill
- Laurence White
- Gordon Fleming
- Prisoner of War
- Norm Rowe
- D H (Chook) Fowler
- Mickey Webster
- James Murnane
- Jack Pitcher
- William McCann
- Not titled [Prisoner of War]
- Not titled [Prisoner of War]
- Eddie Deakin
- Not titled [Prisoner of War]
- Joe Mye
- Peter Ouwendijk
- Bob Parsons
- Thomas Brereton
- Bill Shorney
- Tex Ambrose-Pearce
- 'Sailor' Byoki
- Vic Honeyman
- Lieutenant Colonel George Ramsay
- Colonel Thomas Hamilton
- Captain Ray Griffin
- Colonel Charles Anderson
- Major Campbell
- Jack Dickinson