The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts multiple tropical ulcers healing on the foot and lower shin of a prisoner.
Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thailand to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. Chalker secretly made drawings of the various camps and conditions endured by the prisoners. He drew and painted on whatever materials he could find or steal from the Japanese, hiding his work in sections of bamboo buried in the ground, the attap roofs of huts, or the artificial legs worn by amputees in the hospital camps. His work provides a candid and moving record of the prisoners' suffering.
Drawing of leg with ulcers. Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thailand to construct the Burma-Thailand Rail
A close study of a foot with a tropical ulcer. Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thailand to construct th
Depicts a study of a foot with a chronic tropical ulcer. Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thailand to co
Detailed sketch of a severe tropical ulcer on a prisoner of war's leg in Nakom Paton, Burma-Thailand Railway. Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall of Singapore. In Oc
A case study of a chronic phase of tropical ulcer. Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thailand to construc
Watercolour sketch of a foot with a tropical ulcer contraction. Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thailan