World War II: British prisoners of war freed from Japanese prison camp at Rangoon. Photograph, ca. 1945.

1945

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 20.4 x 25.3 cm

Picture shows a groupf of British prisoners photographed in the medical section of the Rangoon prison camp. They were given no medical supplies and they were treated says Major McLeod, their fellow prisoner and medical oficer, "like animals". Rice however their only diet was sufficient to keep them alive. Typed label on verso describes the circumstances of the photograph

Crown copyright, presumably ca. 1945

Wellcome Collection 554714i