Embankment
Embankment (2006) oil on canvas with collage 70 x 70 cm
POA
Once the bridges were built at Tamarkan, most of the prisoners were sent further north into the jungle to work on different sections of the railway. The conditions 'up country' were far worse than at Tamarkan. Fortunately for him, my father ran the stores and canteen and stayed at Tamarkan when it became a hospital camp, still under Colonel Toosey's control. Conditions in the many jungle camps along the railway were terrible: backbreaking work, starvation, disease, beatings, heat, monsoon rains - it is impossible to describe the horror in a few words. This painting is of one of the railway embankments near the Hellfire Pass Memorial.