Distillery, Nakom Paton Accession Number: ART90909

Description

The alcohol distillery and vinegar plant at Nakhon Pathom, Burma-Thailand Railway. The tent structure has bamboo framework and there are many containers and jars on the floor.

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.

Details

Accession Number
ART90909
Artist
Jack Bridger Chalker
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour with pen and ink on paper on card
Measurement
Overall: 20.4 cm x 33 cm
Medium
watercolour with pen and ink 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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