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Name: Australians flock to Thailand to honour POWs who died on Thai-Burma railway
Uploaded: 2024-04-25T11:27:09.373Z
Duration: 2 min 38 s

Australians flock to Thailand to honour POWs who died on Thai-Burma railway

Published 25 April 2024, 10:16 am

After being captured by Japan’s army during World War II, around 13,000 Australian prisoners of war were forced to work on what was then called the Thai-Burma railway. More than 2,800 of those POWs - mostly young men who volunteered to serve overseas - died in captivity of disease and mistreatment. An Anzac Day ceremony is held in Thailand each year at a section of the railway, now known as Hellfire Pass.

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