Aerodrome POW Camp, Tavoy

Place Asia: Burma
Accession Number ART28535.025
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 17.8 x 25.2 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil on paper
Maker Korsch, John Donald
Place made Burma, Burma
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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Description

An attap thatched palm hut at the Aerodrome Prisoner of War Camp. The kitchens can be seen on the right detached from the main building. This was one of a number of Japanese prisoner of war camps in the area used to house working parties of Australian and Allied prisoners of war captured in Singapore.

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