The Immortal memorial to all P.O.W. of Japanese whether they lived or died

These words and paintings are from

The Charles Thrale Exhibition

 ‘The Valleys of the Shadow of Death’

Proceeds went to Campaign Against World Poverty it opened in London in January 1946.
H.M. the Queen Mary and the Earl and Countess of Athlone and Lord Rowallan were among the many people who saw it
Field Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein said this was a fine pictorial record, portraying so poignantly the hardships of life in Japanese prisoner of war camps.
Lord Mountbatten visited the Exhibation in 1961.

Title The end of a day’s march Inside the Mosque British Cemetery, Singapore The Java Lines Singapore Transport in Changi The Dreaded Temple Hill Detention Barracks No Escape Incident On the Way to the Hell Railway, Siam Carrying out the dead, Canchanburi Base Hospital Building the Bridge over the Salween River Burning the Cholera Dead The Mind of a Prisoner of War Base Hospital, Canchanburi Japanese Guardroom Major Fagan and the Operating Theatre Changi Gaol, Singapore Inside Changi Jail, Prisoners lying on the grid Church of England Service in one of the Court-Yards, Changi Gaol The Funk Holes of Singapore

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