When the Japanese forcefully took over Thailand, the Dutch and Australians were made POWs too. These prisoners who worked on the Death Railroad from Burma to Bangkok suffered from Beri Beri due to lack of nutrition. Public domain
Ben Pate
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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.