AWM P0406.031

 A group of men mourning.

Australians attend the funeral of a mate who died during construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway in 1943. One-third of the Australians who became prisoners of war under the Japanese died in captivity, most under shocking slave labour conditions.

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AWM P0406.031
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Australian War Memorial

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