The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Under machinegun fire and bombing attacks, Sgt Geoffrey Cyril Bingham, (NX32437) 8th Division Signals, with two other men, repairs damaged telephone wires between Mersing and Endau, Malaya. Bingham was captured following the fall of Singapore, becoming a prisoner of war of the Japanese. After his liberation, Bingham was awarded a Military Medal for his “bravery and devotion to duty at Endau and Singapore Island.”
Murray Griffin also drew a portrait of Bingham in Changi prisoner of war camp see ART26452.
Depicts a portrait of Sergeant Geoffrey Cyril Bingham (NX32437), 8 Division Signals. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. After his liberation, Bingham was awarded a Militar
Depicts a portrait of Sergeant Geoffrey Cyril Bingham (NX32437), 8 Division Signals. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. After his liberation, Bingham was awarded a Militar
Depicts a portrait of Corporal Geoffrey John Walter Bingham (NX51770), DCM, 8 Division signals. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at Singapore. Bingham was awarded his Distinguished Conduct Medal
Four members of a concert party perform on a makeshift stage. Murray Griffin was an official war artist appointed in 1941 with 8th Division AIF in Malaya. He was prisoner of war at the fall of Singapo
Studio portrait of B3/58, official war artist. Vaughan Murray Griffin, holding his palette and paintbrushes. He was appointed as an official Australian war artist in the Middle East and later in Malay
Depicts an emaciated man, recently returned from Burma-Thailand railway, resting in a hospital bed and showing his physical condition. This is one of a small collection of works on paper by Murray Gri
Portrait of official war artist Murray Griffin in uniform. Griffin was the first member of the Contemporary Art Society to be appointed an official war artist. In November 1941 he arrived in Singapore
