The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The operating theatre at Chungkai prisoner of war camp hospital during the building of the Burma-Thailand Railway. Jack Chalker was serving in the Royal Artillery when he 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.
Depicts a POW at Chungkai (Kao Poon) in Thailand, a large hospital camp for sick or dying POWs. In this case it is evident that the gastrointestinal system is affected as the patient exhibits a disten
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
Physiotherapy centre in Nakom Paton. Jack Chalker was serving in the Royal Artillery when he was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thailand to construct th
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
A study of a leg with tropical ulcers mid-calf. 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 t
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