In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now ... as the Burma Death Railway is far grislier than any movie could make it, and the ways that the prisoners who built ...

a "Japanese prisoner of war forced to work on the Thai-Burma railway" who is "haunted by the memory of his affair with his uncle's wife, Amy," according to an official synopsis. The series follows ...

Told over multiple time periods, the five-part drama follows Dorrigo as a Far East prisoner of war during the construction of the Burma Railway. Decades later, he finds his growing celebrity at ...

An Australian man, whose grandfathers were held captive by the now-defunct Imperial Japanese military during World War Two, ...

McMurtrie Street was named in 1955 to honour the service of Corporal Matthew Smith McMurtrie who served in the Second World ...

He then endured three years as a prisoner of war, on the Thai-Burma Railway,” the president said. When the Japanese army descended on the Singapore hospital, Parnell was too ill to be moved.

The Death Railway line from Ban Pong in Siam (Thailand) to Ye in Burma (Myanmar) was built over 76 years ago by Prisoners of War (PoW) and slave labourers. Besides the Tamils, Chinese and Malays ...