Japanese prisoners building the jetty on Rempang Island, 1945

Photograph, World War Two, Far East (1941-1945), 1945.

Over 100,000 Japanese prisoners captured in Malaya and Singapore were sent to Rampang Island as they could not be accommodated elsewhere. Rempang is about 25 miles south-west of Singapore. The prisoners were provided with tools to construct accommodation, a road and landing jetty.

From a collection of 185 photographs of Japanese, Chinese, Indian, British, German and American soldiers, aircraft, aerial photography and ships at sea.