[otd] 17th October 1943 - Bangkok to Burma rail link joined up

[otd] 17th October 1943 - Bangkok to Burma rail link joined up

Posted by grahame at 16:59, 17th October 2025

The "Death Railway". My former father in law was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the second world war war. Lovely man. Never spoke of it - he may have been there.

The 258 mile line was constructed between 16 September 1942 and 17 October 1943. And as a through route the line lasted only until 16 January 1946.

Words fail me - I'll refer you to Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Railway to read more about it.

A. Mackinnon donated this photo to the Australian War Memorial - This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
Australian and Dutch prisoners of war at Tarsau in Thailand. The four men are suffering from beri beri.

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