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COWRA, NSW. 1944-08-05. THE DEAD BODY OF A JAPANESE PRISONER OF WAR (POW) WHO ENDED HIS LIFE DURING THE COWRA OUTBREAK, 1944-08-05, AN ATTEMPT BY PRISONERS TO ESCAPE. THE KNIFE IS STILL CLUTCHED IN HIS HAND. (PREFERED IMAGE HELD AT P02567.006)
The dead body of a Japanese Prisoner of War (POW) who committed suicide by cutting his throat with a knife during the mass escape from the Cowra POW camp in the early hours of the morning of Saturday
COWRA, NSW. 1944-08. KNIVES RECOVERED IN AND AROUND B CAMP. (THE JAPANESE SECTION), OF NO. 12 PRISONER OF WAR COMPOUND AFTER THE MASS ESCAPE ATTEMPT IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF THE 1944-08-05. INCLU
Clothes and blankets, used as protection against the barbed wire, hanging over the perimeter fencing around B Compound of the Cowra Prisoner of War (POW) Camp immediately after the escape attempt by 1
Clothes and blankets, used as protection against the barbed wire, hanging over the perimeter fencing around B Compound of the Cowra Prisoner of War (POW) Camp immediately after the escape attempt by 1
COWRA, NSW. 1944-08. HUTS DESTROYED BY FIRE IN B CAMP, (THE JAPANESE SECTION), AT NO. 12 PRISONER OF WAR COMPOUND AFTER A MESS ESCAPE ATTEMPT IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THE 1944-08-05. INCLUDING SUICIDES T
COWRA, NSW. 1944-08-05. THE MORNING AFTER THE OUTBREAK REVEALED DEAD BODIES LYING EVERYWHERE ALONG THE BLANKET DRAPED WIRE.