Desperate bravery of Australian POWs

10th December 1943: A sick man marvels at the risks taken by his fellow prisoners to find food to help him and others

Orderly On His Rounds in X Ward, Changi Gaol, Singapore, with POW's Suffering from Starvation and Beri-Beri. Lesley Cole, 1945

For the men forced to work on the 'Death Railway' in Burma and Thailand, conditions were bleak. Not only were the Japanese forcing them to work in appalling circumstances but they were compelled to do so on a debilitating diet. M…