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Amputation Ward in a Bamboo Hut Hospital
Photographer: (PD) in the collection of the Australia War Memorial. Image No. P00761.012
Taken: Circa 1943
Caption: Amputation Ward in a Bamboo Hut Hospital
Additional Description: Caption: “Burma-Thailand Railway. c. 1943. ‘Amputation ward’ in Bamboo Hut Hospital at a prisoner of war (POW) camp along the Burma-Thailand railway. The POWs have mostly had legs amputated because of uncontrollable tropical ulcers. (Photograph donated by A. Mackinnon.)”
Submitted: August 7, 2023, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p742007
File Size: 0.160 Megabytes

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