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The illustrations in this calendar depict incidents (many of them captioned) which occurred in the lives of camp prisoners since 1942. Among events illustrated are the forced march of prisoners to Changi, the award of one tin of pineapple per 10 men in honour of the Japanese Emperor’s birthday and the construction of an airfield for the Japanese. There are also humorous scenes, such as a prisoner eyeing a well fed chicken, and a snoring prisoner’s ‘one man concert’. The final illustration is captioned ‘Lest we forget, this must not happen again or we perish’, and shows prisoners lying on their wooden beds arranged in rows outside a reed hut.

Thank you: State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library Special Collections where this Calendar is archived

From the estate of British serviceman, Warrant Officer W. Ball imprisoned in Changi 1943-1945