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The Death Railway, Part Five

1st May 2024 Going Postal 1995 Comments

David Lean’s 1957 film depicted the bridge as a significant timber structure located in the deep jungle, spanning a narrow river featuring rocks and rapids. This is of course a work of fiction and was [more…]

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The Death Railway, Part Four

24th April 2024 Going Postal 2210 Comments

Step forward to the present day; SWMBO and I have been visiting Thailand for many years and decided it was time to head out to the Death Railway as Grandad Humbug had been in Burma [more…]

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The Death Railway, Part Three

17th April 2024 Going Postal 1884 Comments

Railway Construction Initially, the railway construction schedule allowed reasonable working conditions to be imposed on the POWs who, at that time, formed the majority of the skilled workforce. This combined with the fact that the [more…]

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The Death Railway, Part Two

10th April 2024 Going Postal 1892 Comments

The preparatory work was completed by early September 1942 and construction began both in Burma and Thailand on the 16th of that month. Many of the Japanese engineers had attended British universities before heading back [more…]

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The Death Railway

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Most Puffins will have watched David Lean’s 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai which is based on a novel published five years previously by French author Pierre Boulle. Whilst both book and film [more…]

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You have probably noticed by now that the media likes to play favourites. Certain groups get far more attention, and praise is lavished upon them. Indeed, in some cases it seems that they can do [more…]

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