Experiences ofAustralian Prisoners of the

Japanese

Photos mainly taken from the AWM’s Thai-Burma railway collection.All sources given in the notes

Thai-Burma Railway

Prisoners laying sections of the Railway

Section of the track, 1945

Hellfire Pass

Secret photo taken of prisoners on the Thai-Burma Railway

PrisonersThailand, 1942

Prisoners’ urinal, Thai-Burma Railway

Condition of a Prisoner in 1945 as a result of labour and starvation

Drawing of conditions for prisoners on Thai-Burma Railway

Prisoners on the Thai-Burma Railway

Prisoners with a tropical ulcer

Prisoner with a partially healed tropical ulcer

Amputation ward (mainly due to tropical ulcers)

Medical staff operating on an ulcer

Operating, Thai-Burma, 1943

Improvised medical instruments

Prisoners with Beri-Beri, Thailand, 1945

Prisoner with Beri-Beri

Prisoner with beri-beri

Prisoner with cholera

Prisoners with dysentery, Thai-Burma

Prisoner with dysentery

Painting by Harold Abbott

Harry Robinson, Ambon, 1945

Survivors of Palembang

Australian nurses bowing to Japanese guards

Australian ex-POWs, 1945