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AA (Happy) Hawkins
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of A A 'Happy' Hawkins, of 'Falor', Yarran Road, Oatley, New South. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. B...ART28403.039
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A BETTER TYPE OF JUNGLE CAMP ON THE BURMA-THAILAND RAILWAY.
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A BETTER TYPE OF JUNGLE CAMP ON THE BURMA-THAILAND RAILWAY.128458
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'A GROUP OF NATIVES ON THE CROWDED ROOF OF A TRUCK ON A NORTH BOUND TRAIN. PICTURE TAKEN AT ...
Photograph
Maker: Reddaway, Bruce Albert
'A GROUP OF NATIVES ON THE CROWDED ROOF OF A TRUCK ON A NORTH BOUND TRAIN. PICTURE TAKEN AT WANPOU [Wampo (Wang Po)].'120502
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A Japanese prisoner handing a cup of tea to a member of the Military History Team at Wampo siding ...
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Maker: Reddaway, Bruce Albert
A Japanese prisoner handing a cup of tea to a member of the Military History Team at Wampo siding on the Burma-Thailand railway.120503
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A JAPANESE SOLDIER BARTERING WITH A NATIVE OVER THE PRICE OF A CHICKEN. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE ...
Photograph
Maker: Reddaway, Bruce Albert
A JAPANESE SOLDIER BARTERING WITH A NATIVE OVER THE PRICE OF A CHICKEN. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE TOP OF A NORTH BOUND TRAIN ON THE BURMA THAILAND RAILWAY. (PHOTOGRAPHER SGT REDDAWAY, MILITARY HISTORY S...120504
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Alepauk, Burma. c. October 1945. Alepauk prisoner of war (POW) cemetery in which Anderson ...
Photograph
Maker: War Graves Commission Survey Party, 1945
Alepauk, Burma. c. October 1945. Alepauk prisoner of war (POW) cemetery in which Anderson Battalion, "A" Force, has seventeen graves. Six of the 10 graves in this view are of Australian soldiers. The ...P01910.012
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Allied prisoners of war (POWs) taken at No 2 Staging Camp on the Burma-Thailand Railway in August ...
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Allied prisoners of war (POWs) taken at No 2 Staging Camp on the Burma-Thailand Railway in August 1943. These POWs were taken at Singapore on 15 February 1942.132944
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Aluminium container : Lieutenant A Y Ellerman, 2/29 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Engraved aluminium container with a hinged lid. The top of the container has a stippled background and is engraved with a sunflower design and 'A Y ELLERMAN'. The back of the container is engraved wit...REL31565
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Anakan (Anganan) (Aungganuang), Burma. c. September 1945. Lieutenant J. Eldridge, a British ...
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Anakan (Anganan) (Aungganuang), Burma. c. September 1945. Lieutenant J. Eldridge, a British member of the War Graves Commission survey party, and two Japanese officers. They are searching this overgro...P00761.044
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Anakan (Anganan) (Aungganuang), Burma. c. September 1945. Members of the War Graves Commission ...
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Anakan (Anganan) (Aungganuang), Burma. c. September 1945. Members of the War Graves Commission survey party whose task was to locate prisoner of war (POW) cemeteries and grave sites along the Burma-Th...P00761.051
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Anaquin, Burma. 26 September 1945. A grave, believed to be of ten men, the crew of an Allied B24 ...
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Maker: War Graves Commission Survey Party, 1945
Anaquin, Burma. 26 September 1945. A grave, believed to be of ten men, the crew of an Allied B24 Bomber, shot down by an Anti-Aircraft (AA) Unit of the Indian National Army, and buried by the Japanese...P01910.003
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Anganan, Burma. c. October 1945. Anganan prisoner of war (POW) cemetery. The sign above the ...
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Maker: War Graves Commission Survey Party, 1945
Anganan, Burma. c. October 1945. Anganan prisoner of war (POW) cemetery. The sign above the entrance reads "Allied POW cemetery - Anganan 100km camp. We will remember them." Anganan is 100 kilometres ...P01910.015
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A portrait of VX43307 Private (Pte) Donald Gordon Boyce, 2/40 Battalion, shortly after release ...
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A portrait of VX43307 Private (Pte) Donald Gordon Boyce, 2/40 Battalion, shortly after release from being a prisoner of war (POW), showing the effects of dysentery, beri Beri and malaria. Imprisoned a...P01433.019
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Arnold Ainsworth
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Arnold M Ainsworth, of 'Longcrags', 106 Tozer Street, West Kamsey (Kempsey?). The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thaila...ART28403.030
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AUDIENCE AT A CAMP THEATRE ON THE BURMA-THAILAND RAILWAY.
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AUDIENCE AT A CAMP THEATRE ON THE BURMA-THAILAND RAILWAY.128454
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AUSTRALIAN EX PRISONERS OF WAR WHO HAVE HAD LIMBS AMPUTATED ARRIVED AT KALLANG AIRPORT, ...
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Maker: Stuckey, Norman Bradford
AUSTRALIAN EX PRISONERS OF WAR WHO HAVE HAD LIMBS AMPUTATED ARRIVED AT KALLANG AIRPORT, SINGAPORE. SOME OF THE 'LEGGIES' ON ARRIVAL by Royal Australian Air Force Douglas C-47 Dakota aircraft AT KALLAN...119707
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AUSTRALIAN EX PRISONERS OF WAR WHO HAVE HAD LIMBS AMPUTATED ARRIVED AT KALLANG AIRPORT, ...
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Maker: Stuckey, Norman Bradford
AUSTRALIAN EX PRISONERS OF WAR WHO HAVE HAD LIMBS AMPUTATED ARRIVED AT KALLANG AIRPORT, SINGAPORE. SOME OF THE 'LEGGIES' ON ARRIVAL AT KALLANG AIRPORT FROM BANGKOK. MANY MEN ARE STILL CARRYING 'SWEAT ...119708
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Australia Service Medal : Private H H McKee, 4 Australian Anti Tank Regiment, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL32367.004
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Australia Service Medal : Private R R Trotter, 8 Division Ammunition Company
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL38150.004
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Autographed good luck flag : Sergeant N M Cohen, 8 Division HQ
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Unknown Japanese soldier's autographed national flag, with a central inset red cotton disc. There are numerous slogans and signatures written on the flag in black ink characters. The top right corner ...REL45907
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Autographed Japanese fundoshi : Signalman J Easton, 8 Division Signals
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Red cotton Japanese fundoshi, or loin cloth, with two self fabric ties across the top edge. The fundoshi bears the autographs, written in indelible pencil, of the surviving members of 8 Division Signa...REL33778
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AWM54 481/8/13 Part 1 - [Medical - Attendance on POW's:] Diaries kept by Lt Col A E Coates, Chief Medical Officer, Nakom Paton Hospital Camp, during captivity [Part 1 of 6]
Digitised Collection
Maker: Department of Defence
AWM2019.8.39
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AWM54 481/8/13 Part 6 - [Medical - Attendance on POW's:] Diaries kept by Lt Col A E Coates, Chief Medical Officer, Nakom Paton Hospital Camp, during captivity [Part 6 of 6]
Digitised Collection
Maker: Department of Defence
AWM2019.8.37
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AWM54 554/2/6 - [8th Division in Captivity - "A" Force (Burma):] Interview with Lieutenant Colonel G E Ramsay by Captain G N Nicholson - 1945. Burying of records and documents while POW
Digitised Collection
Maker: Department of Defence
AWM2019.8.5
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AWM54 554/2/13 - [8th Division in Captivity - "A" Force (Burma):] In the matter of war crimes Act, 1945 and in the matter of trials of minor War Criminals by Military Court, Letters A to G True copies of original exhibits which were tendered by WX 11177 Major B A Hunt, in his evidence before Australian War Crimes Commission, 17 October 1945. Letters H and I Copies of original exhibits tendered by VX 39198 Colonel A E Coates, 28 October 1945
Digitised Collection
Maker: Department of Defence
[8th Division in Captivity - "A" Force (Burma):] File containing index of letters, signed by various AMF Officers, the signatures being confirmed in attached affidavits, Exhibit by Lieutenant Col G Ha...AWM2019.7.6
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AWM54 554/7/4 - [8th Division in Captivity - "F" Force (Thailand):] Report on activities of the AIF "F" Force which left Changi for Thailand in April 1943, with appendices 1 to 15, including a report by Major Bruce Hunt, on the Cholera epidemic and general conditions during the first five weeks, also recommendations for awards
Digitised Collection
Maker: Department of Defence
AWM2018.8.1438
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Bangkok, Thailand. c. 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the Australian War Graves ...
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Bangkok, Thailand. c. 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the Australian War Graves Commission survey party at Nakom Pathon waiting to board their train for the search for POW cemeteries and gra...P00761.037
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BANGKOK, THAILAND. 18 SEPTEMBER 1945. AUSTRALIAN 8TH DIVISION MEN DEMONSTRATE THE "G" STRING ...
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Maker: Stuckey, Norman Bradford
BANGKOK, THAILAND. 18 SEPTEMBER 1945. AUSTRALIAN 8TH DIVISION MEN DEMONSTRATE THE "G" STRING ("JAP NAPPIES") WHILE WAITING AT BANGKOK AIRPORT FOR AIR TRANSPORT. THESE WERE PRACTICALLY THE ONLY CLOTHES...118846
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BANGKOK, THAILAND. 1945-08. STUDIO PORTRAIT OF FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR ON THE BURMA-THAILAND ...
Photograph
Maker: Mayfair
BANGKOK, THAILAND. 1945-08. STUDIO PORTRAIT OF FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR ON THE BURMA-THAILAND RAILWAY. LEFT TO RIGHT: LIEUTENANT ALAN MITCHELL, 2/2ND PIONEER BATTALION (FRONT LEFT) AND HIS BROTHER, LIE...P01576.001
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Ban-Tam-Kam, Thailand. c. May 1945. In a round trip of nearly 2,500 miles, from bases in India, ...
Photograph
Maker: Harrison, John Thomas
Ban-Tam-Kam, Thailand. c. May 1945. In a round trip of nearly 2,500 miles, from bases in India, RAF Liberator Aircraft of Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command, smashed a 600 feet three-span girder...OG2469
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Bill Papworth
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Bill Papworth, Australian prisoner of war. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginning of 194...ART28403.007
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Bill Prenter
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Bill Prenter, of 24 Trafalgar Pde, New South Wales. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginni...ART28403.029
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Bill Shorney
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Bill Shorney. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginning of 1943 many prisoners had died and...ART28403.080
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Bob Hill
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Bob Hill. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginning of 1943 many prisoners had died and it ...ART28403.062
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Bob Parsons
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Bob Parsons. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginning of 1943 many prisoners had died and ...ART28403.078
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Brigadier Arthur Varley
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Brigadier Arthur L Varley MC, Commanding Officer 22 Brigade 2 AIF. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway....ART28403.009
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Private H H McKee, 4 Australian Anti Tank Regiment, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL32367.003
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Private R R Trotter, 8 Division Ammunition Company
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL38150.003
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Broadmeadows, Vic. 1940-10. Group portrait of members of the 2/10th Field Park Ordnance, attached ...
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Broadmeadows, Vic. 1940-10. Group portrait of members of the 2/10th Field Park Ordnance, attached to 8th Division, outside a tent at the army training camp during their initial training before embarki...P02166.001
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Burma. 1945-10-18. A section of the Wampo bridge showing the cutting hewn out of solid rock by ...
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Burma. 1945-10-18. A section of the Wampo bridge showing the cutting hewn out of solid rock by the prisoners-of-war (POW's). The bridge rises hundreds of feet above the Kwandi River.120510
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Burma. C. 1945-02. A very typical small bridge on the Burma-Thailand railway. There are hundreds ...
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Burma. C. 1945-02. A very typical small bridge on the Burma-Thailand railway. There are hundreds of bridges of this type all along the line and they present a difficult and tiny target for the attacki...SUK13874
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Burma. c. February 1945. An action picture taken on an unidentified part of the Burma-Thailand ...
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Burma. c. February 1945. An action picture taken on an unidentified part of the Burma-Thailand railway. Here the railway embankment was badly damaged in an attack by RAF Liberator bomber aircraft of t...SUK13876
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Burma. c. October 1945. A line strung with washing belonging to the War Graves Commission survey ...
Photograph
Maker: War Graves Commission Survey Party, 1945
Burma. c. October 1945. A line strung with washing belonging to the War Graves Commission survey party. The train on the right is probably on the Burma-Thailand railway, constructed by prisoners of wa...P01910.026
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Burma. c. October 1945. An overgrown stretch of the Burma Thailand railway line in either Burma ...
Photograph
Maker: War Graves Commission Survey Party, 1945
Burma. c. October 1945. An overgrown stretch of the Burma Thailand railway line in either Burma or Thailand. Photographed by the War Graves Commission survey party whose task was to locate prisoner of...P01910.023
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Burma. c. October 1945. A section of the Burma Thailand railway in the jungle, showing the hilly ...
Photograph
Maker: War Graves Commission Survey Party, 1945
Burma. c. October 1945. A section of the Burma Thailand railway in the jungle, showing the hilly terrain of Burma or Thailand.P01910.007
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Burma. c. October 1945. Informal group portrait in front of a motorised rail car used for ...
Photograph
Maker: War Graves Commission Survey Party, 1945
Burma. c. October 1945. Informal group portrait in front of a motorised rail car used for transporting the War Graves Commission survey party on daily sorties from their base. Sergeant Lloyd Rankin (W...P01910.027
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Burma. c. October 1945. Many cemeteries were in this type of jungle. In many areas hundreds of ...
Photograph
Maker: War Graves Commission Survey Party, 1945
Burma. c. October 1945. Many cemeteries were in this type of jungle. In many areas hundreds of metres of access paths had to be cut by the War Graves Commission survey party before the cemeteries coul...P01910.028
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Burma. C. 1945-03. This main line bridge on the Burma-Thailand railway between milestones 44 and ...
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Burma. C. 1945-03. This main line bridge on the Burma-Thailand railway between milestones 44 and 45 was completely destroyed, and the by-pass bridge suffered damage in air attacks by RAF Liberator air...SUK13962
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. An Australian prisoner of war (POW) SX11414 Private Russell St Aubyn ...
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. An Australian prisoner of war (POW) SX11414 Private Russell St Aubyn Teague, 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion displaying the effects of wet beri-beri caused by vitamin deficiency in ...P01433.023
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. An emaciated Dutch prisoner of war (POW), Sergeant J P Fortuin showing ...
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. An emaciated Dutch prisoner of war (POW), Sergeant J P Fortuin showing the effects of general debility post dysentery and exhaustion from beri beri typical of the condition of...P01433.021
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. An emaciated prisoner of war (POW) 1426657 Gunner J P Bradley, 7 Coast R ...
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. An emaciated prisoner of war (POW) 1426657 Gunner J P Bradley, 7 Coast R A showing the effects of malaria and beri-Beri. he had suffered six bouts of malari ain six weeks, thr...P01433.024
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. A partially healed tropical ulcer on the shin of an Allied prisoner of ...
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. A partially healed tropical ulcer on the shin of an Allied prisoner of war (POW). Often the shin bones and sinews were totally exposed. The only truly beneficial medication wa...P01433.028
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Burma or Thailand. c. 1945. A steel bridge on the Burma-Thailand railway showing the result of ...
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Burma or Thailand. c. 1945. A steel bridge on the Burma-Thailand railway showing the result of Allied bombing. (Donor B. Theobald)P01433.007
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Burma or Thailand. c. 1945. A steel bridge on the Burma-Thailand railway showing the result of ...
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Burma or Thailand. c. 1945. A steel bridge on the Burma-Thailand railway showing the result of Allied bombing. (Donor B. Theobald)P01433.006
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. QX9846 Corporal Reginald Lloyd Harvey, 2/26 Battalion of Sandgate, Qld, ...
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. QX9846 Corporal Reginald Lloyd Harvey, 2/26 Battalion of Sandgate, Qld, an emaciated Australian prisoner of war (POW) showing the effects of beri beri, typical of the conditio...P01433.020
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. 6043 Sergeant M A Priest, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, an ...
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. 6043 Sergeant M A Priest, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, an emaciated prisoner of war (POW) showing the effects of dysentery, typical of the condition of many of the All...P01433.022
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. The feet of an Allied prisoner of war (POW) suffering from beri-beri. In ...
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Burma or Thailand. 1945. The feet of an Allied prisoner of war (POW) suffering from beri-beri. In this case his feet are badly swollen, making standing and walking very painful. A disease caused by vi...P01433.029
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BURMA-THAILAND RAILWAY. ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR ENGAGED IN BRIDGE BUILDING.
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BURMA-THAILAND RAILWAY. ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR ENGAGED IN BRIDGE BUILDING.119162
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Burma-Thailand Railway. A punishment hole for prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese at a camp ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. A punishment hole for prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese at a camp on the railway.157872
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Burma-Thailand Railway. 1945. A railway carriage known as a salt wagon. Approximately 40 men were ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. 1945. A railway carriage known as a salt wagon. Approximately 40 men were packed into each carriage during travel, without ventilation. The average speed of the trains was only...157866
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Burma-Thailand Railway. 1945. A urinal at a prisoner of war camp. The condition of the men ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. 1945. A urinal at a prisoner of war camp. The condition of the men suggests that the photograph was taken some weeks after the Japanese surrender. This example is typical of th...157869
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. 1943. "Amputation ward" in Bamboo Hut Hospital at a prisoner of war ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. 1943. "Amputation ward" in Bamboo Hut Hospital at a prisoner of war (POW) camp along the Burma-Thailand railway. The POWs have mostly had legs amputated because of uncontrol...P00761.012
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. 1945. Australian servicemen showering under a water tower at a siding ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. 1945. Australian servicemen showering under a water tower at a siding along the railway. (Donor A. Mackinnon)P00761.034
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. February 1943. Allied prisoners of war (POWs) engaged in bridge ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. February 1943. Allied prisoners of war (POWs) engaged in bridge building at Tamarkan, fifty five kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk) and five kilometr...118879
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. A steam train stopped on a jungle siding at the War ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. A steam train stopped on a jungle siding at the War Graves Commission survey party's base camp site. The baskets shown were used by the natives for carrying ...P00761.039
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the War Graves ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the War Graves Commission survey party displaying the camera, film and documents recovered on 27 September 1945 at the 10...P00761.042
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the War Graves ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the War Graves Commission survey party. This group's task was to locate POW cemeteries and grave sites along the Burma-Th...P00761.048
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Grinding rice grain for "pap" (a soft, mushy porridge ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Grinding rice grain for "pap" (a soft, mushy porridge made from boiled rice). A time consuming task, seldom able to be practised during the railway construct...157876
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Japanese rail diesel train, cars and trucks used by ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Japanese rail diesel train, cars and trucks used by the War Graves Commission survey party in their search along the Burma-Thailand railway, for the location...P00761.043
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Members of the Australian War Graves Commission survey ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Members of the Australian War Graves Commission survey party in a jeep searching for isolated prisoner of war (POW) cemeteries along the railway line. On the...P00761.036
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Members of the War Graves Commission survey party ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Members of the War Graves Commission survey party inspecting one of the small pagodas at the site commonly known as The Three Pagodas near the Burma-Thailand...P00761.025
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Padre H. C. F. Babb (British ex-prisoner of war (POW)) ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Padre H. C. F. Babb (British ex-prisoner of war (POW)) and a bare-chested Lieutenant Jack Leemon, 26th Australian War Graves Unit standing on a stretch of th...P00761.038
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Site of a railway accident caused by a bridge collapse ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Site of a railway accident caused by a bridge collapse at the 152 kilometre (Thailand) point. This would place the site near the Konyu (Hellfire Pass) area.P00761.023
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Tamil workers, employed by the Japanese, held in a ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Tamil workers, employed by the Japanese, held in a compound following their liberation at the end of the war. The Japanese are former railway guards, now in ...P00761.052
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945-1946. Warrant Officer Class 2 L. Cody, 2/4th Machine ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945-1946. Warrant Officer Class 2 L. Cody, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion and Sergeant J. H. Sherman (Schurman), 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, ex-prisoner of war (POW...P00761.045
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Warrant Officer Class 2 L. Cody, 2/4th Machine Gun ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Warrant Officer Class 2 L. Cody, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, an ex-prisoner of war (POW) member of the War Graves Commission survey party. Their task was to...P00761.046
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Burma-Thailand Railway. 1945. Graves of Japanese who died during the construction of the railway. ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. 1945. Graves of Japanese who died during the construction of the railway. (Donor A. Mackinnon)P00761.041
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Burma-Thailand Railway. 1945. Members of the War Graves Commission Survey Party sent from Bangkok ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. 1945. Members of the War Graves Commission Survey Party sent from Bangkok after the war to check prisoner of war (POW) graves, search for records etc, signing for their pay en ...P00761.050
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Burma-Thailand Railway. Mess parade for prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese, at a camp on the ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. Mess parade for prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese, at a camp on the Burma-Thailand railway. In theory the Japanese ration scale for POWs on the railway included 680 grams...128455
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Burma-Thailand Railway. Prisoner of war (POW) huts formed with matting as a half wall. Various ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. Prisoner of war (POW) huts formed with matting as a half wall. Various fire fighting implements are grouped towards the left of the hut. A garden of cannas has been cultivated ...123559
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Burma-Thailand Railway. 1945. Prisoners of war (POWs) queueing up to wash, at a camp along the ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. 1945. Prisoners of war (POWs) queueing up to wash, at a camp along the railway. (Donor A. Mackinnon)P00761.006
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Burma-Thailand Railway. September 1945. Japanese rail cars used by the War Graves Commission ...
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Burma-Thailand Railway. September 1945. Japanese rail cars used by the War Graves Commission survey party. This group's task was to locate prisoner of war (POW) cemeteries and grave sites along the Bu...P00761.049
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Captain Arthur Hence
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX70153 Captain Arthur William Hence (later MBE), 2/18 Bn 2 AIF. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. B...ART28403.020
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Captain Tim Godlee
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Captain Tim Godlee, medical practitioner, of Clairmont. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beg...ART28403.057
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Captain W M Drower
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Captain W M Drower. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginning of 1943 many prisoners had di...ART28403.050
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CHANGI, SINGAPORE. 1945-09-19. GUNNER N. A. COLLINSON, 4TH ANTI-TANK REGIMENT, EX-PRISONER OF WAR ...
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CHANGI, SINGAPORE. 1945-09-19. GUNNER N. A. COLLINSON, 4TH ANTI-TANK REGIMENT, EX-PRISONER OF WAR OF THE JAPANESE, WEARING THE THAILANDER'S CAP HE WORE WHILE WORKING ON THE THAILAND RAILWAY.116452
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CHANGI, SINGAPORE. 1945-09-19. PRIVATE C. BAMFORD, 2/29TH INFANTRY BATTALION, EX-PRISONER OF WAR ...
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CHANGI, SINGAPORE. 1945-09-19. PRIVATE C. BAMFORD, 2/29TH INFANTRY BATTALION, EX-PRISONER OF WAR OF THE JAPANESE, WHO WORKED ON THE BURMA-THAILAND RAILWAY DURING HIS THREE YEAR IMPRISONMENT.116453
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Charlie Byford
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of C H 'Charlie' Byford, of Tavistock Street. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginning of 194...ART28403.018
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CHINESE AND INDIAN TROOPS MEET IN BURMA. BOTH TYPES IN THIS PICTURE ARE RENOWNED FOR THEIR VALOUR ...
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Maker: Unknown British Official Photographer
CHINESE AND INDIAN TROOPS MEET IN BURMA. BOTH TYPES IN THIS PICTURE ARE RENOWNED FOR THEIR VALOUR -- A STOCKY SON OF THE CHINA HILLS AND A YOUNG SOLDIER OF THE PUNJAB HILLS. THEY ARE FIGHTING SIDE BY ...012330
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Chronically ill patients whose health broke down in the Burma and Thailand jungle during the ...
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Maker: Stuckey, Norman Bradford
Chronically ill patients whose health broke down in the Burma and Thailand jungle during the construction of the railway. Most of the men have been patients in Ward 19 of Nakom Paton Hospital for over...118858
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Chumphon, Thailand. 1945-03-19. To disrupt Japanese supplies destined for the Burma front, more ...
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Chumphon, Thailand. 1945-03-19. To disrupt Japanese supplies destined for the Burma front, more than eighty heavy bomber aircraft of Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command, flew across the Indian Oc...SUK14069
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CHUNGKAI, BURMA - THAILAND RAILWAY. THE CAST OF THE ENTERTAINMENT "WONDER BAR" (A PLAY ON THE ...
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CHUNGKAI, BURMA - THAILAND RAILWAY. THE CAST OF THE ENTERTAINMENT "WONDER BAR" (A PLAY ON THE GERMAN WORD WUNDERBAR) ON THE STAGE AT A CAMP THEATRE. ALL MATERIALS, INCLUDING THE COLOURING MATERIALS FO...122543
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Chungkai (Kao Poon), Thailand. c. October 1945. Lieutenant G. H. Schroder, Netherlands East ...
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Chungkai (Kao Poon), Thailand. c. October 1945. Lieutenant G. H. Schroder, Netherlands East Indies Army, a ex-prisoner of war (POW) member of a War Graves Commission survey party, standing in a bund, ...P00761.019
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Cliff Cosh
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Cliff Cosh (or Cash), Australian prisoner of war. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginning...ART28403.053
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Collection of 40 images taken by a Japanese surveyor and exchanged in Thailand post war with QX15191 Arthur Francis Seary
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Maker: Unknown Japanese photographer
Burma-Thailand Railway. c. 1943. Native women loading petrol at Thanbyuzayat, Burma. (Donor A. Seary)P00406.037
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Collection of 40 images taken by a Japanese surveyor and exchanged in Thailand post war with QX15191 Arthur Francis Seary
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Maker: Unknown Japanese photographer
Thailand. c. 1942. Prisoners of war (POWs) being transported by train along the Burma-Thailand railway, built by POW labour for the Japanese. (Donor A. Seary)P00406.010
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Collection of 40 images taken by a Japanese surveyor and exchanged in Thailand post war with QX15191 Arthur Francis Seary
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Maker: Unknown Japanese photographer
Songkurai, Thailand. 1943. Building the Songkurai bridge on the Burma-Thailand railway which was built for the Japanese by prisoner of war (POW) labour. Songkurai is approximately 494 kilometres north...P00406.007
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Collection of 40 images taken by a Japanese surveyor and exchanged in Thailand post war with QX15191 Arthur Francis Seary
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Maker: Unknown Japanese photographer
Thailand, c. 1942. A view of houseboats on the Menam Kwa Noi River, with a section of the Burma-Thailand railway visible in the background. (Donor A. Seary)P00406.008
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Collection of 40 images taken by a Japanese surveyor and exchanged in Thailand post war with QX15191 Arthur Francis Seary
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Maker: Unknown Japanese photographer
Takanun, Thailand. c. 1943. Prisoners of war (POWs) manhandling sleepers on the Burma-Thailand railway. Takanun is approximately 218 kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), or 196 ...P00406.018
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Collection of 40 images taken by a Japanese surveyor and exchanged in Thailand post war with QX15191 Arthur Francis Seary
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Maker: Unknown Japanese photographer
Thanbyuzayat, Burma. c. 1943. Prisoners of war (POWs) collecting rails for the Burma-Thailand railway. (Donor A. Seary)P00406.039