The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Tha Mayo Cemetery (also known as Tamajo and Tamajau), containing Australian "A" Force prisoner of war (POW) graves. The inscription on the cross in the foreground reads: "NX24738 .... Pte Mooney L. Age 40. AIF. Died 13.11.44". The burial party appear to have mistaken Pte Mooney's age, as both his service record and Roll of Honour entry document his death from illness at 36 years. The War Graves Commission survey party's task was to locate POW cemeteries and grave sites along the Burma-Thailand railway. They also took the opportunity to recover equipment and documents which had been secretly buried, under instructions from senior POW officers, in the graves of deceased POWs.
Tha Khanun, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. c. October 1945. Tha Khanun base camp cemetery, containing five Australian prisoner of war (POW) graves. Photographed by the War Graves Commission survey p
Kanchanaburi, Thailand. c. October 1945. The old city gates at Kanchanaburi (also called Kanburi). Photographed by the War Graves Commission survey party whose task was to locate prisoner of war (POW)
Burma. c. October 1945. An overgrown stretch of the Burma Thailand railway line in either Burma or Thailand. Photographed by the War Graves Commission survey party whose task was to locate prisoner of
Three Pagoda Pass, Thailand. c. October 1945. Informal group portrait of War Graves Commission survey party members at Three Pagoda Pass, on the Burma Thailand border. Left to Right; Warrant Officer 2
Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the War Graves Commission survey party. This group's task was to locate POW cemeteries and grave sites along the Burma-Th
Burma. c. October 1945. Many cemeteries were in this type of jungle. In many areas hundreds of metres of access paths had to be cut by the War Graves Commission survey party before the cemeteries coul
