P01433.021

P01433.021

Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

ID number
P01433.021
Object type
Black & white
Place made
Asia
Date made
c August 1945
Physical description
Black & white
Collection
Photograph
Description
Burma or Thailand. 1945. An emaciated Dutch prisoner of war (POW), Sergeant J P Fortuin showing the effects of general debility post dysentery and exhaustion from beri beri typical of the condition of many of the Allied prisoners of the Japanese at the end of the war. (Donor B. Theobald)
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