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Death Railway Interest Group; The Tomb of 10,000 Souls Wat Thavorn Wararam; The Prisoner List. Short online film about prisoners of the Japanese during World War II based on the book by Richard Kandler; Burma railway trip report 2012; Captive Audiences/Captive Performers: Music and Theatre as Strategies for Survival on the Thailand-Burma ...
About 60,000 prisoners of war of Allied Forces guided by 12,000 Japanese engineers, began the work of laying the railway line for about 415 km. After a few weeks, the Japanese army realized it needed millions of people to complete the project.
William Moylon (31 December 1915 – 21 November 2014) was a soldier of the British Army who survived over three years in Japanese prisoner of war camps during the Second World War where he worked on the Burma Railway and was forced to eat lizards to survive.
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The Japanese considered it the best-run prisoner-of-war camp on the railway and gave him considerable autonomy. In December 1943 Toosey was transferred to help run Camp Nong Pladuk, and in December 1944 he was moved to the allied officers' camp at Kanchanaburi where he was the liaison officer with the Japanese.
Camp Nong Pladuk (also: Nompuradokku [1]) was a Japanese prisoner of war transit camp during World War II. It was located about five kilometres from the main railway station of Ban Pong [2] near a junction station on the Southern Line to Bangkok. Nong Pladuk served as the starting point of the Burma Railroad. Numerous British, Dutch, and allied ...
Nagase was born in 1918 in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan and learned English at an American Methodist college in Tokyo. [2] He joined the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, and became an interpreter for the Kempeitai at the construction of the Burma Railway, known for its brutal conditions leading to the deaths of over 12,000 Allied prisoners of war and 90,000 Asian labourers or romusha.
The Japanese Thrust — Australia in the War of 1939–1945, Lionel Wigmore, AWM, Canberra, 1957. Authenticated Records from Japanese POW camps along the Thai-Burmese railway 1942–45, second floor, Research library, Thai-Burma Railway Centre, Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 2008. Prisoners of the Japanese - POWs of World War II in the Pacific, Gavan Daws