Spirit of the Railway
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Where is the rest?????
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From memory the rough figure for asian labourers lost on the line is about 200,000. The most staggering thing is that whole families were sent up the line. Men, women and children. Life expectancy for an asian labourer was around one month.
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"One sad legacy of the railway is that not one single Asian labourer was buried in an identifiable grave, and that perhaps no more than three may ever have been exhumed and reburied - as unknowns."
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Its called ( Waltzing Matilda )
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Beautiful Australian Song. What is the title of that?
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"The Thai-Burma Railway has been mythologised - mainly by the film 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' and by numerous books - as being built almost exclusively by Allied prisoner of war. Yet anyone who says the phrase 'the railway built by PoWs in the Second World War' or similar, ignores the fact that 70% of the workforce were contracted or conscripted Asian from Burma, Malaya, and to a lesser number Singapore and Java, and their death rate was more than twice that of the prisoners of war."
vedandha 3 years ago
So true. Many of the allied ex-POW's complain that the impressed Asian civilians were never really acknowledged, although they were such a significant portion of the workforce. This Spirit of the Railway documentary does recognise the sacrifices made by them, told through the eyes of ex-POW's and the military historian/engineer featured in the film. You should also look at The Quiet Lions - this film also talks about the sacrifices made by the Asian populations on the Thai-Burma Railway.
thinktankdigital 3 years ago