The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Three men leading a water-buffalo calf into camp; crouching figure left foreground; huts and trees in background. This is the Konyu Camp, October 1942, and the first camp meat that the prisoners had seen. The prisoners had to hold the calf while the Japanese commandant attempted to torture it by putting lit cigarettes in its eyes.
River scene with boats, huts and jetty, trees and hills in background; drawn on the back of a Japanese army postcard. This is the Konyu River camp in Thailand, 1942. Verso: Camp huts, trees, and backg
Painted on the back of a Japanese postcard, this is a view of the Konyu River Camp, with hospital huts, trees and background hills, and several figures dotted about.
An exterior view of the huts at the Oflag 7B POW camp in Eichstatt, Germany. Depicted are approximately six of the huts that the inmates lived in that surround a small open area and telegraph wires ca
The artist's first bamboo and attap hut at Konyu River Camp in November 1942. When the prisoners first arrived in Thailand, they were forced to march into the jungle to reach the campsites on the rail
In the foreground is a figure carrying water, and to the left is the Chungkai Theatre made from bamboo and attap (palm leaf). It was built in a natural amphitheatre, with a dug-out orchestra pit, and
Two men in Konyu River Camp. Chalker became a Japanese Prisoner of War when Singapore fell in 1942. Jack Chalker was serving in the Royal Artillery when he was captured at the fall of Singapore. In
