Hellfire Pass on the Death Railway

13th February 1943: Men weakened by hunger and disease must find strategies to survive Japanese hard labour

Cholera Lines on the Thai-Burma Railway, 1943. Ronald Searle. A camp on the Thai-Burma Railway. A group of five emaciated men stand around bamboo stretchers lying on the ground, each containing the corpse of a cholera victim tightly wrapped and bound in a cloth.

Out in the jungles of Thailand, far from home and far from the Singapore base where they had …