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In the News (Tue 7 Oct 08)

  
 [Australian War Memorial]
After the war, Changi Gaol once again became a civilian prison, while the Changi military area was repaired and redeveloped for use by the British garrison.
A museum and a replica of one of the chapels built by Allied prisoners in the Changi area have been opened on the road between Changi Gaol and Selarang Barracks.
In 1988 one of the original prisoner-of-war chapels was transported to Australia, re-erected in the grounds of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and dedicated as the national memorial to Australian prisoners of war.
www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/pow/changi.htm   (789 words)

  
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Built by the prisoners of war, many of them Australians, during World War II, it was dismantled by Australian soldiers in 1945.
The Memorial also has a number of relics from Changi gaol in its collection.
According to Mr Dennis Grant, head of communications and marketing at the Australian War Memorial, it was reassembled in Australia and is now on permanent display at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in Canberra as a source on spiritual inspiration to young officer cadets.
straitstimes.asia1.com.sg /mnt/html/webspecial/insidetrack/s6_6.html   (2053 words)

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