The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 war (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.
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)
Tampi (Tampines), Thailand. c. October 1945. A stretch of the Burma-Thailand railway. Tampi is 147 kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), or 267 kilometres south of Thanbyuzayat.
Burma. c. October 1945. A line strung with washing belonging to the War Graves Commission survey party. The train on the right is probably on the Burma-Thailand railway, constructed by prisoners of wa
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
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
Nieke, Burma. c. October 1945. Group portrait of Japanese war crimes suspects, formerly guards at prisoner of war (POW) camps, interrogated by the War Graves Commission survey party. The main Nieke st
