In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded ... And so it was decided that a railway connecting Thailand and Burma would be constructed through dense tropical jungle over hilly ...

Schoolchildren sang Happy Birthday to Mr Jennings when he turned 103 A former soldier thought to be the last surviving veteran of the infamous Burma Railway ... Japanese in World War Two.

Jack Jennings, thought to be the last survivor of the infamous Burma Railway, has celebrated turning ... The story of the World War Two prisoners of war camp featured in an Oscar-winning film ...

PORT DICKSON, Nov 11 (Bernama) -- K. Arumugam, the oldest survivor of the infamous ‘Death Railway’, a forced labour project between Siam (Thailand) and Burma (Myanmar) during World War Two, who died ...

This Sunday and Monday mark Remembrance Sunday and Remembrance Day 2024 when the UK looks back in memory of those who laid ...