Tamuang, Thailand. October 1945. Prisoner of war (POW) camp at Tamuang, viewed from the guard ...

Tamuang, Thailand. October 1945. Prisoner of war (POW) camp at Tamuang, viewed from the guard tower. Located thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), eleven kilometres south of Kanchanaburi and 375 kilometres south of Thanbyuzayat. It became a temporary holding camp for Australian, Dutch, British and American recovered POWs following the Japanese surrender. These groups had been engaged in maintenance of the railway, or the construction of defence positions for the Japanese army in various locations in Burma and Thailand. Another recovered group had been part of the Wampo-Tavoy road construction work force. Photographed by the War Graves Commission survey party whose task was to locate POW cemeteries and grave sites along the Burma-Thailand railway. They also took the opportunity to recover equipment and documents which had been secretly buried, under instructions from senior POW officers, in the graves of deceased POWs. (Donor B. Evans)