The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two emaciated figures, one with stick, the other with swag, trudging along a road. Verso: Inverted pencil sketch for the two emaciated men. Daily roll calls were used by the Japanese to select the prisoners who would work each day. Despite their emaciated and sick condition very few were deemed by the Japanese to be unfit to work. Those who were too ill to walk to the construction sites had their meagre food rations reduced and were denied the small pay given by the Japanese. This drawing has a special place for Chalker among his prisoner of war works as it only narrowly survived. A Korean guard once caught Chalker hiding his sketches and forced him to tear them up. He was then beaten for two days, after which Chalker found that this drawing had survived undetected in a pile of rags.
Two men in Konyu River Camp. Chalker became a Japanese Prisoner of War when Singapore fell in 1942. Jack Chalker was serving in the Royal Artillery when he was captured at the fall of Singapore. In
This drawing depicts two soldiers seated on a piano stool. One wears a coat and faces away from the viewer and plays the piano while the other faces the viewer and play the accordian. Arthur Gardener
40th page in a sketchbook of 42 pages of pencil drawings, diary entries and artist's notes. Study for the drawing '"Jack" Daniels' (ART91787). It is a portrait of one of the older, and more experience
Drawing of tents with two figures in the middle. Vykopal created this work on a residency with the Army Aboriginal Community Assistance Program (AACAP) in the Tiwi Islands. Based with Australian Arm
The artist's first bamboo and attap hut at Konyu River Camp in November 1942. When the prisoners first arrived in Thailand, they were forced to march into the jungle to reach the campsites on the rail
A study for Butler-George's plaster and bronze panels titled 'Bringing up the guns' (ART90084 and ART90405). The principal drawing depicts two Australian soldiers straining on ropes to haul artillery
