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• PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE FAR EAST DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "PRISONERS OF WAR 1939 - 1945" (photographs)

  Close-up of the inscription on the memorial constructed by prisoners of war at Tamarkan - "In Memory of Deceased Prisoners of War 1944".

• BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE FAR EAST DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR IN JAPANESE HANDS" (photographs)

  A rudimentary operating theatre in a Japanese hospital for prisoners of war at Nakon Paton, Thailand. Major Kranz and Captain Sheet of the AAMC perform an appendectomy, using dental cocaine as an anaesthetic.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Liberation and Repatriation August - September 1945: The Union Jack is raised at Stanley Civil Internment Camp, Hong Kong, watched by the internees.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Occupation and Captivity February 1942 - August 1945: The living conditions at Stanley Civil Internment Camp, Hong Kong (photographed after liberation in 1945). Two internees are shown in a room normally occupied by seven.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Occupation and Captivity February 1942 - August 1945: The meagre rations resulted in many cases of severe malnutrition. An Indian prisoner of war from Hong Kong is attended to by nursing staff (Sick Berth Attendant Hodson and Leading Sick Berth Attendant...

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939 - 1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Prisoners of war and internees at Stanley Civil Internment Camp, Hong Kong, who were tortured and executed by the Japanese, inscribed their names and dates of execution on their cell walls as a record. The photograph shows the inscription made by D W...

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ashley (Plt Off)

  Liberation and Repatriation: The first British prisoners of war to be evacuated from Singapore after liberation walk to their aircraft at Kallang airport.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Liberation and Repatriation August - September 1945: Limbless prisoners of war from Hong Kong celebrate liberation on board the hospital ship OXFORDSHIRE. Left to right: R Jucke, Beausejoir, Manitoba, Canada; W Nunn, Colchester, England; J Smith,...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Dewhurst (Sgt)

  Liberated Allied prisoners-of-war from camps in Thailand, waiting to board Douglas Dakotas of RAF Transport Command at Don Muang airfield, Bangkok, for their flight to Rangoon, Burma.

• BRITISH REOCCUPATION OF SINGAPORE, 1945

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  A group of former internees soon after their liberation from the Women's Civil Internment Camp, which was located a few miles outside the city of Singapore.