The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 south of Thanbyuzayat. Following the Japanese surrender, it became a temporary holding camp for Australian, British, Dutch and American recovered POWs who had been engaged in railway maintenance, or the construction of defence positions for the Japanese in various locations in Burma or Thailand. Another recovered group had been part of the Wampo-Tavoy road construction work force. (Donor A. Mackinnon)
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
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. 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
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
Tamuang (Tamuan), Thailand. c. 1945. A typical prisoner of war (POW) hut under construction at the Tamuang camp thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), eleven kilometre
Tamuang (Tamuan), Thailand. c. 1943. The cookhouse at Tamuang prisoner of war (POW) camp. The earthenware fireplaces which can be seen under the roofline, housed the large steel kwalis (woks) used for
