Collection relating to the service of NX34734 Reginald William James Newton

Either NX455 Major Arthur Alexander Moon (captured by the Japanese in Java) or NX71143 Captain Richard Grey Vernon Parker (captured by the Japanese in Singapore), performing a haemorrhoid operation at the Regimental Aid Post (RAP) at Tamuang prisoner of war (POW) camp. The guard in the foreground was known as ‘Bombay Duck’. Tamuang is thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), or eleven kilometres south of Kanchanaburi. Following the Japanese surrender, it became a temporary holding camp for Australian, British, Dutch and American recovered POWs, who had been engaged in maintenance of the railway, or the construction of defence positions for the Japanese in various locations in Burma and Thailand. Another recovered group had been part of the Wampo-Tavoy road construction work force.