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Dad and the Burma Railway

Dad and the Burma Railway

23 April 2016

9:00 AM

23 April 2016

9:00 AM

Thawley Prize Runner-up

For nearly 1300 days my father was tortured and starved and saw death up close. He witnessed an Australian soldier’s road-side execution with a Samurai sword and once saw a Gurkha behead a Japanese officer with his kukri. My father was a survivor of the Burma Railway and these were just some of the horrors that stayed with him until his death.

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