Operating Theatre, Chungkai Hospital Camp 1943-1944 : Colonel ‘Weary’ Dunlop (facing) and Captain J ‘Marko’ Markowitz (back view) working on a thigh amputation case. The Theatre was about twelve feet square within a bamboo and attap hut.
postcard, postcard
Accession Number
NAM.1995-09-35-1
Description
Operating Theatre, Chungkai Hospital Camp 1943-1944 : Colonel ‘Weary’ Dunlop (facing) and Captain J ‘Marko’ Markowitz (back view) working on a thigh amputation case. The Theatre was about twelve feet square within a bamboo and attap hut. Colour postcard reproducing a watercolour by Jack Chalker as an advertisement for his book ‘Burma Railway Artist’, published by Pen and Sword Books Limited, 1994.
Events
Burma Railway, 1942-43 (World War Two, POWs Far East 1941-1945)