Historic Japanese Steam Locomotive No. 175 near the Bridge on the River Kwai, World War II Museum, Kanchanaburi, Thailand
During the Second World War many forced labourers from Britain, The Netherlands, Australia, Thailand, Burma, Java and Malaysia (plus other from India, Denmark, New Zealand and other countries) built the Burma Railway (also known as the Death Railway, the Siam–Burma Railway etc.) under the control of the Japanese army. The prisoners lived in appalling conditions and battled not just the oppression of the Japanese authorities but the disease of living in a remote tropical jungle. This cemetery is close to the bridge across the Mae Klong River, which was the inspiration for Pierre Boulle in his book and the subsequent film which was based on it, “The Bridge on the River Kwai”. As many as 300,000 people worked on this construction and some estimates put the number who died on the Burma Railway as high as 50%.
Size: 4200px × 2741px
Location: Southeast Asia Thailand Kanchanaburi Thanon Mae Nam Khwae
Photo credit: © Dunstone Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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