[Source: The Indo Project] Accurate estimates of the cost of the Burma Death Railway in terms of human lives are hard to come by, but it’s pretty well established that of the 60,000 or so POWs ...

(Image: Patrick Hayward) Bert, of Bitterne, was a prisoner-of-war for three and a half years during the Second World War — spending 18 months labouring on the notorious Siam-Burma Death Railway, which ...