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• 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.

• Chazabel Swings It At the Bampong Ball

  (art) Made by: Sprod, George Napier 1944

  image: a man in drag, wearing an elaborate headdress and brightly coloured clothes, dances with a small smiling man with a moustache and tails who is leaping into the air. Behind them to the right a second, similarly dressed couple are about to start...

• 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...

• 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.

• Transport in Changi, Singapore

  (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1942

  image: A team of bare-chested prisoners struggle to pull a wagon loaded with wood, just visible at the top of the page, along a track through the jungle. They are supervised by an officer walking alongside. In the background two military policemen salute...

• The Aussie Who Did Not Want To Die

  (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1943

  image: A naked, skeletal, emaciated prisoner lies on his side on a mat on the ground.

• Another Pal

  (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1943

  image: An emaciated prisoner covered in a blanket lies on his back, staring vacantly.

• Entrance to Changi Gaol

  (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1942

  image: An enormous, closed gateway in a high wall with look-out posts at the corner. A team of prisoners are pulling a cart towards the gate, watched by onlookers in the foreground.

• The Ugly Sisters and Groucho Cock a Leg

  (art) Made by: Searle, Ronald William Fordham 1944

  image: two men dressed as the Ugly Sisters dance a can-can. In between a man dressed as Groucho Marx dances while holding a cigar.

• After the Battle, Singapore; British Troops Marching to Changi, Sketched from a Red Cross Truck

  (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1942

  image: British troops on the march to Changi after fighting on Singapore. They march away from the viewer in a long column, the road running into the distance at the top of the composition. In the foreground is a Red Cross truck containing injured men.