The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Tamuang, Thailand. c. 1944. Major A. A. Moon or Captain R. Parker, performing a haemorrhoid operation at the Regimental Aid Post (RAP) at Tamuang prisoner of war (POW) camp. The guard marked X in the foreground was known as Bombay Duck. Tamuang is thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), or eleven kilometres south of Kanchanaburi. Following the Japanese surrender, it became a temporary holding camp for Australian, British, Dutch and American recovered POWs, who had been engaged in maintenance of the railway, or the construction of defence positions for the Japanese in various locations in Burma and Thailand. Another recovered group had been part of the Wampo-Tavoy road construction work force. (Donor A. Mackinnon).
Tamuang, Thailand. c. 1945. The Tamuang prisoner of war (POW) camp, thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), or eleven kilometres south of Kanchanaburi, 375 kilometres s
Either NX455 Major Arthur Alexander Moon (captured by the Japanese in Java) or NX71143 Captain Richard Grey Vernon Parker (captured by the Japanese in Singapore), performing a haemorrhoid operation at
Tamuang (Tamuan), Thailand. c. 1945. A typical prisoner of war (POW) hut at the Tamuang camp thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), eleven kilometres south of Kanchana
Wampo (Wang Po), Thailand. c. September 1945. Japanese soldiers evacuating the Tavoy-Wampo road, coming in to surrender. This road was still under construction by prisoner of war (POW) labourers when
Tamuang (Tamuan), Thailand. c. 1945. Typical attap huts used by the Japanese to house prisoners of war (POWs) at the Tamuang camp thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk)
Tamuang, Thailand. c. 1943. Major A. A. Moon, an Australian Medical Officer at work in the hospital hut in the prisoner of war (POW) camp. Tamuang is thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also
