The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Tamuang (Tamuan), Thailand. c. 1945. Typical attap huts used by the Japanese to house prisoners of war (POWs) at the Tamuang camp thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), eleven kilometres south of Kanchanaburi, or 375 kilometres south of Thanbyuzayat. Tamuang served as a transit camp and hospital for POWs during the 1943 to 1945 period. Following the Japanese surrender, it became a temporary holding camp for Australian, British, Dutch and American recovered POW, who had been engaged in railway maintenance or the construction of Japanese defence positions in various locations in Burma or Thailand. Another recovered group had been part of the Wampo-Tavoy road construction work force. This group of 400 had been despatched from Tamuang in December 1944. Their work load was extremely demanding under very poor conditions. They suffered a thirteen per cent death rate. (Donor B. Theobald)
Tamuang (Tamuan), Thailand. c. 1945. A typical prisoner of war (POW) hut at the Tamuang camp thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), eleven kilometres south of Kanchana
Tamuang (Tamuan), Thailand. c. 1945. A typical prisoner of war (POW) hut under construction at the Tamuang camp thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), eleven kilometre
Tamuang (Tamuan), Thailand. c. 1943. The cookhouse at Tamuang prisoner of war (POW) camp. The earthenware fireplaces which can be seen under the roofline, housed the large steel kwalis (woks) used for
Tamuang, Thailand. c. 1945. The Tamuang prisoner of war (POW) camp, thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), or eleven kilometres south of Kanchanaburi, 375 kilometres s
Tamuang, Thailand. c. 1944. Major A. A. Moon or Captain R. Parker, performing a haemorrhoid operation at the Regimental Aid Post (RAP) at Tamuang prisoner of war (POW) camp. The guard marked X in the
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 s
