The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Changi, Singapore. c. 1945. A prisoner of war (POW) amputee wearing the first artificial leg made from car parts at Changi POW camp. (Donor A. Mackinnon)
Changi Prison Camp, Singapore. c. 1945. NX67447 Warrant Officer Arthur Henry Mason Purdon, 2/30th Battalion of East Maitland, NSW, with diagrams of artificial limbs which he built from aluminium and o
Changi, Singapore. c. 1944. A "Changi chariot", or wagon put together from scrounged materials, loaded with firewood for the cookhouse. The wagon is pushed and pulled by prisoners of war (POWs). (Dono
An artificial leg made from bamboo from Chungkai, Thailand in a hospital within a prisoner of war camp working to build the Burma- Thailand Railway.
Kanchanaburi, Thailand. c. September 1945. Officers' huts at the prisoner of war (POW) camp, seen from outside the camp perimeter. By January 1945 all POW officers in Thailand, except some padres and
VX43677 Sergeant J C Wik, 2/29th Battalion, a former prisoner of war (POW) who was released from Changi POW Camp, Singapore, is welcomed by his family.
Tamarkan, Thailand. c. 1944-1945. Burma-Thailand railway. The rail junction along the line to the Tamarkan Bridges. The prisoner of war (POW) camp is located in the bush to the right, on the other sid
