Journey to the Death Railway

23 March 1943: A survivors account of how even being transported up to the area where they were forced to work was an appalling ordeal for Allied POWs

‘A Working Party on the Railway of Death’, Fred Ransome Smith, former prisoner. Typical labouring scene. Shows Hammer and Tap, Embankment labouring, Timber felling and an excavated cutting.

Thousands of men were already working, and dying, on the 'Railway of Death', the Burma Thailand railway that the Japanese were building using POWs as forced labour.

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