The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Illustration depicts the rigging for a constant saline drip for washing ulcers. Pictured are the drip saline bottle, irrigation plant and drip saline tin suspended from a rope. Below is a bamboo platform with a tripod and a lower limb resting on a bamboo support.
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.
A study of a healed tropical ulcer of the lower limb mid-calf region. Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Th
A study of a lower limb affected by a tropical ulcer with bone involvement. Sequestrum refers to the infected bone that has separated from the healthy bone structure. Jack Chalker, serving in the Ro
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 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
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 Ch