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HMAS Perth fights to the last, 28th February, 1942

Griffin was captured during the fall of Singapore in February 1942 and spent the remainder of the war in Changi prisoner-of-war camp. This picture was painted as a result of a conversation with survivors in Changi from the Perth, sunk in the Sunda Strait, off Java, two weeks after Singapore fell.

Oil on hardboard 63.4 x 81.9 cm
Painted in Changi, Singapore, c. 1942
Acquired under official war art scheme in 1946
Australian War Memorial
ART24483

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