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• A Time of Silence

  (art) Made by: Delavigne, Ronald 1998

  whole: The painting shows a bloody head on a stick surrounded by a large black expanse. The face is sunken and yellow and surrounded by bluish-grey halo, above it is word 'Changi' .

• China Sea off Shanghai : 15th September 1945, Officers of a prisoner-of-war liaison team being transferred from "HMAS Quiberon" to"HMS Colossus" by bo'sun's chair during heavy seas

  (art) Made by: Morris, James 1945-09-15

  image: a seascape showing a man being transferred from a destroyer to a battleship in a bosun's chair, above high seas threatening to engulf the smaller vessel. A row of sailors are shown standing on destroyer's deck, pulling the chair across.

• Survivors from the Railway of Death

  (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1943

  image: A crowded, chaotic scene in a flat, water-logged landscape with hills in the distance. In the foreground prisoners sit on the ground between stretchers holding sick or dead men. Standing amongst the prisoners are uniformed soldiers and men with...

• Doreen Thrale

  (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1944

  image: An imagined head and shoulders portrait of the artist's daughter, who he had not yet seen at the time.

• A Korean Guard

  (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1943

  image: A three quarter length portrait of a Korean prison guard wearing Japanese uniform and holding a rifle. He stands in front of a tree and parts of the prison camp are visible behind him.

• The Building of the Main Bridge over the Salween River

  (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1942

  image: A view from afar of a large bridge being constructed across a river. Both river banks are covered in jungle vegetation with a few buildings visible immediately on both banks. Many people are also visible though only as tiny dots in the distance....

• The Burning of the Cholera Dead

  (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1942

  image: A grim scene in a clearing in the jungle. There is a large fire in the centre of the composition with several naked corpses on the ground in the foreground. Able bodied prisoners, only wearing shorts, lift corpses towards the fire and maintain the...

• 'F' and 'H' Force Hospital, Canchanburi, Siam

  (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1943

  image: A view across 'F' and 'H' Force Hospital camp in Kanburi in Thailand. There is a line of several large bamboo huts to the left, with a more rudimentary hut beside three tall palm trees in the centre. The wooden fence of the camp is to the right.

• Main Highway, Siam, the Salween River

  (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1943

  image: A view from the bank of the Salween River in Thailand. In the foreground are various people, including a man carrying two fully laden baskets suspended from a branch he carries on his shoulder. There are several boats on the water and a hut on the...

• The Foliage at the Jungle Edge

  (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1942

  image: A jungle landscape with two hawks flying above the trees.