Weary Dunlop
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Colonel Sir Ernest Edward "Weary" Dunlop, was an Australian surgeon who was renowned for his leadership while being held prisoner by the Japanese during the Second World War.
Dunlop in Bangkok, 1945
Dunlop with the victorious Bledisloe Wallabies, 1st Test v NZ 11 August 1934
A bronze statue of Edward Dunlop situated in the Domain Parklands, Melbourne
A bronze statue of Edward Dunlop at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 2nd of an edition of two by sculptor Peter Corlett, the other in the Domain Parklands in Melbourne. This statue "commemorates all Australian doctors and medical staff who served Australian prisoners of war in the Asia-Pacific region between 1939 and 1945." Conserved 1995, remounted 2010
Ashley George Old
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Ashley George Old was an artist best known for documenting the lives of prisoners of war forced to construct the Thailand-Burma Railway.
Weary Dunlop
…lighthouse of sanity in a universe of madness and suffering". He is depicted in a lighter moment during these terrible times on a birthday card painted by Ashley George Old for Major Arthur Moon and now held at the State Library of Victoria (SLV). Dunlop was a Protestant Christian, and a Freemason. In 1989, Dunlop published…
Major Arthur Moon Collection Exhibition Catalogue Cover
Portrait of POW "Dusty" Rhodes. A three-minute sketch by Old painted in Thailand in 1944
A dark view of the woods at Cupid's Green
The woods at Cupid's Green transformed into a jungle