P00761.048 Accession Number: P00761.048

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Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Ex-prisoner of war (POW) members of the War Graves Commission survey party. This group's task was to locate POW cemeteries and grave sites along the Burma-Thailand railway. They also took the opportunity to recover equipment and documents which had been secretly buried, by senior POW officers, in the graves of deceased POWs. (Donor A. Mackinnon)

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Accession Number
P00761.048
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c September 1945
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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