The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Burma-Thailand Railway. 1945. A railway carriage known as a salt wagon. Approximately 40 men were packed into each carriage during travel, without ventilation. The average speed of the trains was only 10 miles per hour, so short journeys could take several days and nights. The men in the doorway are probably members of the War Graves Unit party whose task was to inspect graves and unearth records relating to the Japanese soldiers who supervised the prisoners of war (POWs).
Kanchanaburi, Thailand. c. December 1945. Group portrait of Australian members of the War Graves Commission survey party outside some attap huts. Most of these men belonged to the 26th Australian Grav
A captured heavy artillery piece on a flat car in Alexadria Railway Yard. On the right is an Allied Grant tank. On the left is a German 170mm K18 Mortar Carriage cannon, which were introduced in servi
A captured heavy artillery piece on a flat car in Alexandria Railway Yard. On the left is a German 170mm K18 Mortar Carriage cannon, which could fire 1 - 2 rounds per minute (40 per hour). This gun wa
Burma or Thailand. 1945. A partially healed tropical ulcer on the shin of an Allied prisoner of war (POW). Often the shin bones and sinews were totally exposed. The only truly beneficial medication wa
Tanbaya, Burma. c. October 1945. Tanbaya hospital cemetery. Initially an "A" Force work camp and hospital, in July 1943 it became a hospital for sick "F" Force men from Thailand. The cross is a memori
Tha Mayo Cemetery (also known as Tamajo and Tamajau), containing Australian "A" Force prisoner of war (POW) graves. The inscription on the cross in the foreground reads: "NX24738 .... Pte Mooney L. Ag
