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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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some black and white photographs of POW camps including Changi and others along on the Thai-Burma Railway, and information on medical conditions, primarily nutritional deficiency diseases, prevalent ...

The periphery arc is his north-south meridian, which traverses through his zenith. Designed and created by NX65538 Jim Collins on the Burma Railway for the purpose of solving spherical triangles ...

Most interviews include discussions of medical conditions, improvised medical treatments and survival in the POW camps. Listen to Dr Colin Juttner interviewed by Dr John Mitchell about his experiences ...

Before acting, Herbert was in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during World War II and spent four years at the Changi PoW camp, from where he was forced to work on the Burma Railway. He was released ...