What he did not expect was that, with hand-held implements like these, he would have to build a railway. The railway in question was to run from Ban Pong in Thailand to Thanbyuzayat in Burma (now ...

With the POWs was Doctor Henri Hekking ... tin cans, boxes – camp utensils. [Source: The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass] Besides the salvaged metal from food tins and bits of detritus ...

A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway ... 22nd birthday in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, he thought he had little ...

The Black Prince was notorious camp commandment Lieutenant Usuki, who handed out beatings to men who worked on the Death Railway in Burma and beheaded one British PoW in full view of his ...

spent three and a half years as a prisoner of war and his weight at the time dropped to six and a half stone (41.3kg). He worked on the Burma and Thailand line, also known as the Death Railway ...