The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 the war ended. 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. Wampo is approximately 114 kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), or 300 kilometres south of Thanbyuzayat. (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
Wampo (Wang Po), Thailand. October 1945. Sergeant T. Lee, 8th Division Provost Company, an ex-prisoner of war (POW) member of the War Graves Commission survey party, pictured next to a sign erected fo
Tamarkan, Thailand. c. October 1945. The prisoner of war (POW) cemetery at Tamarkan which is fifty five kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk) and five kilometres north of Kanchana
Wampo (Wang Po), Thailand. c. September 1945. The Wampo tiered viaduct built along the edge of the Kwai Noi River. The two main viaducts followed the bottom of the cliff for some distance. A ledge had
Wampo (Wang Po), Thailand. 20 October 1945. Wampo is approxiately 114 kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), or 300 kilometres south of Thanbyuzayat. Two Japanese soldiers who act
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
