The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
"The Burma Railway" traces the events after the surrender in 1942 of the ill-fated 8th Division. It tells of their internment in Changi Prison, the construction of the Burma Railway in Thailand and the return of the few POW's to Changi after the completion of the railway. The story is told through interviews with those who were there - Colonel Charles Anderson, VC, Sir (Weary) Dunlop, Colonel Pond, Dr Kevin Fagan, Stan Arneill, Vern Toose and many more military figures. The main interviewee, Russell Braddon, the Australian author who wrote what is perhaps the most compelling account of these war years in his book "The Naked Island", retraces his steps to the inhospitable areas in which he worked as a POW. Film, photographs, drawings and paintings created during the construction of the railway have been taken from archives in Europe, USA, Australia and Japan.
Prisoners building a bridge on the Burma-Thailand railway. Although Griffin volunteered to work on the Burma-Thailand railway, he gave up his spot for a fellow prisoner and remained in Changi. He crea
Reconstruction of a scene witnessed by Colonel Dillon of the British Army, of the bashing of two British and one Australian prisoners of war by Japanese on the Burma-Thailand railway. Griffin original
Comments about NX12543 Captain E.W. (Bill) Gaden, 2/20th Battalion, his pre war service with the militia; formation of forces on the Burma Thailand Railway; trading with the native (indigeneous) peopl
During the Second World War Chalker saw service with the Royal Field Artillery. He was captured at the fall of Singapore and sent to Thailand to work on construction of the Burma-Thailand railway. Cha
Gaunt, skeletal figures lying on beds inside a hospital on the Burma-Thailand railway. Griffin's use of light and shade in this work accentuates the physical condition and obvious suffering of the men
Armed guards seen watching the entrance gate to the military barracks Bandoeng, where POWs were mustered before being sent to the Burma-Thailand Railway. The British and Australians (referred to by Pa
