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Changi Chapel

Second World War (1939-1945)

Miles Road, Duntroon

Australia Austr. Capital Territory Duntroon

Changi Chapel #1

Allied POWs, mainly Australian, built a chapel at Changi POW camp in 1944 using simple tools and scrounged materials.

After the war, the Chapel was dismantled and shipped to Australia and reconstructed at the Royal Military College Duntroon near Canberra.

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Source

Text: Fedor de Vries
Photos: Wikimedia Commons

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