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Year 10 Prisoner of War Assesment Task on the Changi Prison By Ellen Taylor.

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**1. Map - Why was Australia involved in protecting Singapore?**  **map sourced from:** **[]**


 * 2. H ow many Australian prisoners were captured, badly injured and how many died? **

14,972 Australian Soldiers were captured and detained in the Changi prison and approximately 36% or 5,390 of these imprisoned soldiers died in captivity. Majority of the soldiers contracted a type of tropic disease. Because of this, plus the harshness of manual labour and poor conditions, immune systems would have crashed and many men were subject to skin sores, disease and all would be malnutritioned. 

3. The treatment of and hardships faced by Australians in the POW camp?
==Although it is believed that the Changi Prison’s conditions were of a high standard in comparison to other Japanese run Prisoner of War camp, the conditions were still horrible for any human being. Over crowded with men, the camp was unable to be kept hygienic and therefore people became very sick very fast, this was also attributed to malnutrition, lack of medical attention and being over exhausted. Beatings were not as regular in Changi Prison as they were in other Prisoner of War camps but the relationship was still incredibly strained. On average, a day’s ration of food was a half cup of rice and a little bowl of watered down soup. == == == 

Survival was maintained by the prisoners will to live through the experience. They entertained themselves with whatever they could, some choosing to study, others chose to pass the time smoking and gambling with what little they had to trade. Some had poor instruments that they played for their leisure and the entertainment of others. 5. Death Marches Death marches moved prisoners 260 kilometres from Sandakan to Ranau because the Allies were moving towards Borneo. Conditions were shocking and many already sick and malnurished people died. Those who because so exhausted they could continue no longer were shot. Of the 2345 men, only six survived. Of those who died, most were never found. 6. Two Soldiers 7. Calorie intake versus work ourtput

8. What effect did the camps have on the psyche of Australian POW's?