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  1. Action at Parit Sulong, January 1942

    Art

    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    This work depicts the fighting at Parit Sulong by the men of the 2/15th Australian Field Regiment. A 25 pounder gun is in the lower right corner. This battle became the scene of a massacre at the hand...

    ART24477

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    An incident on the Burma railway

    Art

    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    Reconstruction of a scene witnessed by Colonel Dillon of the British Army, of the bashing of two British and one Australian prisoners of war by Japanese on the Burma-Thailand railway. Griffin original...

    ART26525

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    A trailer party, Changi 1944

    Art

    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    Two prisoners dragging an improvised trailer loaded with full sacks and escorted by a Japanese guard.

    ART25100

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    Attack on Japanese tanks on the Bakri-Parit Sulong Road

    Art

    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    Reconstruction of action against Japanese tanks by 2/4th Anti Tank Regiment along Bakri-Parit Sulong Road. This was the scene of intense fighting by withdrawing Australian troops as the Japanese rapid...

    ART27570

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    Changi gaol from the 100 metre huts

    Art

    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    Depicted is a prisoner hanging out washing with the concrete structure of Changi gaol in the background. Griffin captured the scene in October 1944. In 1944 all the POWs, some 10,000 men, held at Ser...

    ART25067

  6. Japanese guards buying vegetables, March 1945

    Art

    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    This composition depicts the Japanese guards from the prisoner-of-war camps in Changi area purchasing the better class vegetables for themselves from Chinese stalls, Australians providing improvised t...

    ART25082

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    The ambush at the bridge over the Gemencheh River, beyond Gemas, 14th January 1942

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    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    An ambush at the bridge over the Gemencheh River, beyond Gemas, in Malaya on 14 January 1942. In this ambush, which lasted 36 hours, over 1000 Japanese were killed and less than 50 Australians were k...

    ART24500

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    The Japanese guard takes a ride

    Art

    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    Japanese guard riding on improvised trailer pulled by prisoners bringing rations into camp. These trailers were constructed by the prisoners and had to be hauled using man power.

    ART25059

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    The march from Ban Pong

    Art

    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    Reconstruction of march through jungle from work on railway. Soon after the march began the monsoons started. The prisoners trudged hundreds of miles through the rain soaked jungle and ankle deep mud,...

    ART25077

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    Working on a Thailand railway cutting, July 1943

    Art

    Maker: Griffin, Murray

    Reconstruction of scene of 'F' Force men excavating earth for the railway cutting, lit by fires, with Japanese guard watching. The billowing fire and the men in shadows gives the illusion of being in ...

    ART25081