Japanese Bayonet Practice, (PoW) Camp, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, 1944

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The artist Jack Chalker, who had been a Prisoner of War of the Japanese himself, painted this scene shortly after the war, from sketches he made at the time. It depicts the Japanese camp guards dressed in lacquer armour engaged in bayonet practice, a favourite leisure pursuit of both Japanese and Korean guards. Wearing costumes similar in design to traditional fighting armour and using wooden ‘rifles’, the guards would roar as they charged at each other, within earshot of the hospital’s sick patients.

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London

Title

Japanese Bayonet Practice, (PoW) Camp, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, 1944

Date

c.1946

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 30.5 x W 35.4 cm (E)

Accession number

NAM. 1995-10-4

Acquisition method

purchased from David Cohen Fine Art Ltd, 1995

Work type

Painting

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