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Bridge building
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Maker: French, James
This work depicts men hauling up a pile driver weight before letting it fall and drive a pilon into the soft river bed. The supervising Japanese usually insisted on the men chanting numbers in Japane...ART92687
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Looking into a hospital hut
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Maker: French, James
A hospital hut at a camp in Kanchanaburi. One of five surviving drawings by Gunner James Joseph French (1920 - 1986) produced while a POW under the Japanese. French enlisted in June 1941 in Brisbane...ART92690
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On the way to work
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Maker: French, James
Sick men strung out along the railway bed on their way to their work site. These men are straggling behind the main body of men that can be seen in the distance. One of five surviving drawings by Gu...ART92686
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Hospital hut
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Maker: French, James
A hospital camp that was established at Kanchanaburi when the railway line construction had been completed. Men were brought back to these camps on stretchers off river barges or the railway. They s...ART92689
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Sleeper laying party
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Maker: French, James
This work depicts men carrying railway sleepers as part of the line laying party. By the time the party commenced work there would have been many men preparing the railway bed, digging out bamboo and...ART92688