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View fullsize Harold Ramsey receiving Caroline Chisholm Award from Anna Burke MP
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View fullsize Harold Ramsey and Colin Hamley - 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion
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'Two Malarias and a Cholera'
'Two Malarias and a Cholera'

This is the iconic image of the death railway - the Line.  Ray drew this image from memory after watching these three walk back to camp from a work party on the Line.  It is now the official emblem of the Changi Museum in Singapore.

Japanese POW mining camp at Ohama on the main island 1945
Japanese POW mining camp at Ohama on the main island 1945

Ray Parkin and Charles Edwards were there for the last year of the war.

There they saw the Nagasaki bomb mushroom. Petty Officer Ray Parkin drew this at the end of the war, completing it in the weeks he spent waiting to be repatriated.

Bandoeng POW camp, Java 1942
Bandoeng POW camp, Java 1942

Ray drew Sgt. Pilot Geoff Dewey relaxing at the back of his cottage within the camp.

Bandoeng POW camp, Java 1942
Bandoeng POW camp, Java 1942

Water boilers were a way of POWs making money in camp. They provided hot water for bathing or washing.  But, it cost.

Ray's tent
Ray's tent

Ray's tent - if it can be called that - in Hintok Mountain camp. The wet season in January 1944.

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