’Railway of Death’ - POW Burma-Siam (Thailand) railway

By permission of the Imperial War museum for this project. Silent. Filmed shortly after the end of World War Two - some of the aftermath of the 258 mile long Burma-Thailand (Siam) railway, constructed by a slave force of POWs and Asian civilians 1942-43. Known as the ’Railway of Death’ it claimed the lives of an estimated 16,000 ’allied’ troops and 90,000 Asian labourers. Working on this railway was the fate of the majority of those captured by the japanese in Singapore, many being sent up on railway cars