25. Founding the Burma Road. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Men at work, founding the Burma Road in the hills. 200 000 unpaid men and women constructed the Burma Road in less than twelve months. It was built to convey supplies to China during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937-38.
Mandalay Palace, where the British captured the royal family in 1885 during the Third Anglo-Burmese War. Photographer probably Griffin, Alfred Sercombe.