The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Nakom Paton, Thailand. 1945. Emaciated native patients in a hospital hut. The patient on the right appears to have some form of brace or splint probably for broken bones. The Japanese army impressed many thousands of native labourers to work on the Burma-Thailand railway of which 90,000 were estimated to have died. (Donor B. Theobald)
NAKOM PATON, THAILAND. 1945-09-19. CHRONICALLY ILL PATIENTS WHOSE HEALTH BROKE DOWN IN THE BURMA AND THAILAND JUNGLE DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE RAILWAY. MOST OF THE MEN HAVE BEEN PATIENTS IN WARD
Nakom Paton, Thailand. 18 September 1945. Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese who are patients in ward 18 of the Nakom Paton POW Hospital Camp. These men were working on the Japanese def
Nakom Paton, Thailand. 18 September 1945. Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese who were patients in ward 18 of the Nakom Paton POW Hospital Camp. These men were working on the Japanese de
Nakom Paton, Thailand. 18 September 1945. Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese who are patients in ward 18 of the Nakom Paton POW Hospital Camp. These men were working on the Japanese def
Nakom Paton, Thailand. 21 September 1945. Aerial photograph of Nakom Paton prisoner of war (POW) hospital camp. In January 1944, using POW and native labour, the Japanese began the construction of thi
Nakom Paton, Thailand. 21 September 1945. Aerial photograph of Nakom Paton prisoner of war (POW) hospital camp. In January 1944, using POW and native labour, the Japanese began the construction of thi
