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CHANGI, SINGAPORE, SEPTEMBER 1942. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN DURING THE SELARANG BARRACKS SQUARE INCIDENT, IN WHICH OVER 15,000 BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN POWS WERE CONFINED IN THE SELARANG BARRACKS SQUARE AFTER REFUSING TO SIGN A NO-ESCAPE AGREEMENT. AFTER THREE DAYS, THE RISK OF DISEASE BECAME SO GREAT THAT THE POW OFFICERS ADVISED THE MEN TO SIGN. THIS PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS THE HOSPITAL AREA, WHERE THE WOUNDED LAY UNDER WHATEVER MAKESHIFT COVER COULD BE SET UP. PHOTOGRAPHER: GEORGE ASPINALL.
CHANGI, SINGAPORE, SEPTEMBER 1942. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN DURING THE SELARANG BARRACKS SQUARE INCIDENT, IN WHICH OVER 15,000 BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN POWS WERE CONFINED IN THE SELARANG BARRACKS SQUARE AFTER R
CHANGI, SINGAPORE, SEPTEMBER 1942. A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN (BY AUSTRALIAN POW GEORGE ASPINALL) DURING THE SELARANG BARRACKS SQUARE INCIDENT, IN WHICH OVER 15,000 BRITISH AND AUSTRALIANS POWS WERE CONFINED
CHANGI, SINGAPORE, SEPTEMBER 1942. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN DURING THE SELARANG BARRACKS SQUARE INCIDENT, IN WHICH OVER 15,000 BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN POWS WERE CONFINED IN THE SELARANG BARRACKS SQUARE AFTER R
SINGAPORE, 1942-09. VIEW OF SELARANG BARRACKS SQUARE, CHANGI, DURING THE SO CALLED SELARANG BARRACKS INCIDENT. SHOWN ARE SOME OF THE 15,400 ALLIED POW'S WHO WERE CROWDED INTO THE SQUARE FOR 3 DAYS AFT
SELARANG, SINGAPORE, 1970. THE BARRACKS WHERE THE "SELARANG INCIDENT" TOOK PLACE IN THE CHANGI POW CAMP IN 1942. APPROXIMATELY 17,000 POW'S WERE CONFINED IN A VERY SMALL SPACE BY THE JAPANESE BECAUSE
Over 15,000 British and Australian prisoners of war (POWs), including sick and wounded, confined in the Selarang Barracks parade ground, originally designed to hold 1,200, after they refused to sign a
