The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The starting point of the Burmese section of the Burma-Thailand railway. This photograph shows a Japanese soldier standing guard at the guard house near the entrance gate to the prisoner of war (POW) camp. Thanbyuzayat camp was occupied in September 1942, and became an administration base as well as a transit camp for POWs arriving from various sites in Burma and Java. In October 1942 it was established as a Base Hospital for seriously ill patients from up-country railway camps. On 12 and 15 June 1943, Allied aircraft bombed and strafed the camp, resulting in the deaths of ninteen POWs and another thirty injured. The hospital was then moved to Retpu, thirty kilometres south of Thanbyuzayat and finally to the fifty five kilometre hospital at Kohn Khuri where VX503645 (VX39198) Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Albert Ernest Coates was in charge.
Thanbyuzayat, Burma. c. September 1945. Members of a War Graves Commission survey party with a metal box of films, paybooks and other records recovered from the grave of TX4217 Private D. A. Eyles, 2/
Burma-Thailand Railway. c. September 1945. Warrant Officer Class 2 L. Cody, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, an ex-prisoner of war (POW) member of the War Graves Commission survey party. Their task was to
Burma. September 1945. Members of the War Graves Commission survey party examining a cholera cemetery at the Tanbaya fifty kilometre hospital camp site. Allied prisoners of war (POWs) who died of chol
Thanbyuzayat Allied War Cemetery, Burma. c. 30 January 1955. Situated approximately sixty five kilometres south of Moulmein, Thanbyuzayat was the starting point of the Burma-Thailand railway construct
Kendau, Burma. c. October 1945. The first prisoner of war (POW) camp on the Burma-Thailand railway, occupied by Green Battalion, "A" Force, October 1942. "A" Force, Burma, calculated distances (in kil
Tamuang, Thailand. October 1945. Prisoner of war (POW) camp at Tamuang, viewed from the guard tower. Located thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), eleven kilometres s
