Museum Matters
Ben Pate
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Body
In September of 1948, Mr and Mrs. Clifford England both residents of Dublin, returned from a reunion of fellow soldiers in Lubbock. Clifford was one of the “Lost Battalion” in Burma from 1942 to 1945. He survived 42 months of slave labor and starvation in a Japanese prison camp. He had been sent to Java on February 1 to help the Dutch and his battalion was not heard from again until the end of the war. (Dublin Progress, September 10, 1948) After they arrived in Thailand, the Japanese took over the island enforce and the island capitulated on February 8th. The captured men were sent to Burma and were forced to begin construction on a railway from Burma to Bangkok, Thailand.