First amput case. Chungkai ‘43 (Capt Markowitz - with tenon saw), 1943
drawing, drawing
Accession Number

NAM.2002-04-897-1

Description

First amput case. Chungkai ‘43 (Capt Markowitz - with tenon saw), 1943. Pen and ink over pencil drawing by Gnr Jack Bridger Chalker (1918-2014), Royal Artillery, 1943. Two studies of a leg amputated by Captain Jacob Markowitz RAMC, one of an ulcerated leg, the other of a similar foot, showing bone and tissue necrosed, exposing the tibia, possibly associated with ‘Gibbs’. With note in pencil and pen and ink. Signed under one foot at lower left, ‘Chalker’.

Campaigns

World War Two, POWs Far East (1941-1945)