Tropical ulcer sequestrectomy Accession Number: ART90882

Description

A study of a lower limb affected by a tropical ulcer with bone involvement. Sequestrectomy refers to the surgical removal of infected bone that has separated from the healthy bone structure.

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.

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Accession Number
ART90882
Artist
Jack Bridger Chalker
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour heightened with white over pencil on paper on card
Measurement
Overall: 32.8 cm x 21.6 cm
Medium
watercolour heightened with white over pencil on paper on card
Date Made
1944-1945
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Presented by the estate of Edward (Weary) Dunlop 1998
Copyright
AWM Licensed copyright

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