Title
Changi Prison
Year/Period
1920s-1940s
Region
Singapore
Object Type
positives (photographs), photographic prints
Material
photographic paper, ink
Technique
photographic processes, photographic printing techniques
Dimension
Image size: 7.7 x 10.2 cm,
Frame size: 8.5 x 11 cm
Frame size: 8.5 x 11 cm
Accession No.
1995-00929-151
Collection of
NLB Type
Photograph
Changi Prison was originally constructed in 1936 by the British administration of the Straits Settlements as a civilian prison. Following the fall of Singapore during WWII in February 1942, the Japanese military converted Changi Prison into a holding camp for prisoners of war (POW); the same happened to the British Army’s Selarang Barracks, located near the prison, which held some fifty thousand Allied POWs, predominantly made up of British and Australian soldiers.
