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POW medical personnel

All of it [Kevin Fagan]> did with the courtesy of a society specialist who is being richly paid for his attention and the ready humour of a man who is not tired at all … he is the mo

Prison camps near Hellfire Pass

Camps for Allied prisoners of war and rōmushaThis system of marching battalions into unprepared jungle camps was the [Japanese] policy … in this initial monsoon period

Prison camps of F Force

Hardship and death for Allied prisoners of warIf ever I see home again … I want nothing more … than to forget these awful days—swollen bodies, bloated from beriberi, walking sk

Prisoners of War: In Their Own Words (Online lesson), (Video), (Student activity), (Educational)

Hear Australian veterans share their harrowing experiences of captivity during the Second World War.

Remembering Australian POWs and the Burma-Thailand Railway

Australian memoriesIn the decades since 1945, prisoners of war (POWs) and the Burma-Thailand Railway occupied a central pla

Robert Goodwin - World War II veteran (Video)

Robert 'Bob' Molesworth Goodwin OAM was an insurance clerk in Brisbane before he enlisted in July 1940 with the Australian Imperial Force (AIF).

Rǒmusha beyond the railway

The ruthless occupier, who fagged us out and allowed us not a single free day and was guilty of the death daily of dozens of rǒmusha, who were made to do slave labor, received

Rǒmusha on the railway

A new embankment and cutting are being built by Tamils [at Compressor Cutting] to skirt and avoid the bridge.

Rǒmusha recruitment

The soldiers forced me to get into the lorry. There were already thirty other people there. I was wearing only a pair of shorts and sandals.

Rǒmusha repatriation and memory

They were simply left to their fate and wandered around everywhere in the hope of managing to get a bite of food somewhere.

Roy Cornford - World War II veteran (Video)

Roy Cornford, a 19-year-old labourer, enlisted into the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in September 1941

Shimo Songkurai camp

This month of May 1943 has been the blackest so far since we have been Ps.O.W. It is interminable.

Singapore

A bad day. Took 100 men on a party to unload cement into a godown.

Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop

The men would do anything for him and are proud to be with him.

Songkurai camp

[Songkurai] was merely a clearing in the dense jungle, in which there were several long bamboo-framed huts, some with a semblance of an attap roof and o

Staying sane

In order to cope … most men surrounded themselves in their own personal and protective armour.

Surviving

Illness and death were constants on the Thai–Burma railway. Approximately 12 800 of more than 60,000 Allied prisoners of war, and up to 90,000 r?musha, died between 1942 and 1945.

Tha Khanun and Thanbaya campsites

In the mornings mist wreathes and smokes along the hillside above us, green with its feathery bamboos and tall trees.

The Australian Prisoners' Accounts

Experiences as prisoners of the Japanese.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

… as for the bridge on the River Kwai, it crossed the river only in the imagination of its author.

The Burmese

By participating in the project [the Burma-Thailand railway] the Burmese could really be doing something that could widen their future, and so we agreed

The dixie

Every man who worked on the railway, in whichever section, would have an automatic passport to Heaven. They have all done the requisite stretch in Hell.

The enemy

Around 12 000 Japanese and 800 Korean soldiers worked on the Burma-Thailand railway as engineers or guards. They were some of over five million soldiers who served with the Imperial Japanese Army…

The marches

Approximately 455 prisoners of war (POWs) left Sandakan in the first march. They left the camp in different groups between January and March 1945.

The Weary Dunlop Park

… all the prisoners of war love him very much … So, when he died, I made up my mind to have Weary Dunlop Park in memory of him.

The workers

Military units to which the Australians belonged were broken up into work forces to meet the Japanese need for labour. From late 1942 more than 13 000 Australians were sent from Singapore, Java and…

Tourists and Pilgrims

I took part in the 2008 QLT [Quiet Lions Tour]. Best experience of my life, met loads of people and it changed my view on life.

Two working men, Konyu River Camp: Expressions - Commemoration through Art (Online lesson), (Student activity), (Educational)

A printable activity sheet to help develop students' understanding of wartime artworks. British soldier and artist Jack Bridger Chalker created this drawing in 1942. In World War II, Chalker was…

Weary Dunlop: Stories of Service (Online lesson), (Video), (Student activity), (Educational)

Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's story is one of care, compassion, hardship and suffering. Weary enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force after studying medicine. This tells his story as an army doctor…
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