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Accession Number | 118853 |
Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white |
Physical description | Black & white |
Maker |
Stuckey, Norman Bradford |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Nakom Paton, Thailand. 18 September 1945. Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese who ...
Description
Nakom Paton, Thailand. 18 September 1945. Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese who were patients in ward 18 of the Nakom Paton POW Hospital Camp. These men were working on the Japanese defence positions at Nieke near the Burma-Thailand border when the enemy surrendered and were treated for recurrent malaria.