Place | Asia: Singapore |
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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
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Selarang buildings
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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