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Map of the Death Railway. A railway route between Burma and Thailand, crossing Three Pagodas Pass and following the valley of the Khwae Noi river in Thailand, had been surveyed by the British government of Burma as early as 1885, but the proposed course of the line – through hilly jungle terrain divided by many rivers – was considered too difficult to undertake.
Ernest Warwick (1918-2009) was a British author, prisoner of war and survivor of the Burma to Siam death railway. ... his first and only book Tamajao 241 : ...
"The notorious Burma-Siam railway, built by Commonwealth, Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma. During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway.
Siam Burma Death Railway is a 2014 Singaporean documentary film written and directed by Kurinji Vendan about the Asian forced-laborers who worked on the Siam-Burma Death Railway during World War II. Synopsis
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Eventually Davies documented Toosey's achievements in a 1991 book entitled The Man Behind the Bridge (ISBN 0-485-11402-X) and a BBC Timewatch programme. A book by his oldest granddaughter, Julie Summers, The Colonel of Tamarkan, was published in 2005 (ISBN 0-7432-6350-2). Toosey was a Justice of the Peace, and High Sheriff of Lancashire [9] for ...
Clifford Kinvig was born on 22 November 1934 to a family of Manx origins. His father was Frank Kinvig, a Liverpool warehouseman, and his mother was Dorothy. The Times, in their 2017 obituary of Kinvig, noted that the name was an anagram of Viking and that it was not unusual on the Isle of Man which had been settled by the Vikings in the tenth century.
The book was a semi-fictional story based on the real plight of Allied POWs forced to build a 415 km (258 mi) railway that passed over the bridge, and which became known as the "Death Railway". 16,000 prisoners and 100,000 Asian conscripts died during construction of the line.