The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 constructed by the Japanese using prisoner of war (POW) labour over the period September 1942 to October 1943. It was the Japanese Administration Headquarters for POWs in Burma, and also served as a base hospital for seriously ill POWs from up country railway camps from October 1942 until June 1943, when Allied air raids forced the Japanese to abandon the site. At the conclusion of the war in August 1945, the graves of those POWs who died during the construction and maintenance of the railway, between Thanbyuzayat and Nieke, were transferred to this cemetery (except Americans who were repatriated). Also buried here are those who died of illness or were executed by the Japanese at Victoria Point Mergui, Tavoy and Moulmein in Burma, between June and September 1942. The total number of burials is 3,771, including 1,335 Australians. The other two Allied War Cemeteries are located in Thailand: Chungkai 1,740 burials; Kanchanaburi 6,982 (including 1,362 Australians).
Chungkai (Kao Poon), Thailand. September 1945. Approximately two kilometres north of Kanchanaburi (Kanburi) on the bank of the Kwai Noi river. Temporary wooden crosses on the graves of Allied soldiers
Tamarkan, Thailand. c. September 1945. A corner of the prisoner of war (POW) cemetery. Tamarkan is fifty five kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk) and five kilometres north of Ka
Portrait of NX39942 Private (Pte) Sydney Brent, 2/30 Battalion of Wellington, NSW. Pte Brent died of illness on 20 December 1943, aged 22 years. He was one of approximately 13,000 prisoners of war wh
Kanchanaburi, Thailand. c. October 1945. Neatly laid out temporary crosses in the Allied War Cemetery. There were four prisoner of war (POW) cemeteries in the township of Kanchanaburi, known to POWs a
Nieke, Thailand. c. December 1945. Nieke is approximately 280 kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), or 135 kilometres south of Thanbyuzayat. There were three prisoner of war (POW
Nakom Paton, Thailand. 18 September 1945. Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese who were patients in ward 18 of the Nakom Paton POW Hospital Camp. These men were working on the Japanese de
