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From: "john feltham" <>
Subject: (Fwd) OTN: Unit on Australian Prisoners of War
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 20:24:32 +10:0


G'day folks,

You never know where you might pick up a snippet of information....

read on............

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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 12:22:47 +1000
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From: Janne McCarthy <>
Subject: OTN: Unit on Australian Prisoners of War

My name is Janne McCarthy and I am a first year student at the
University of Tas. I am studying for a Bachelor of Education degree.

In reply to Elizabeth Peats query on Australian Prisoners of War I
have found a couple of internet sites that may be of use. A brief
summary is below.

The first is about the Thai-Burma railway which was built in 1942-43.
The railway was 415 kilometers long and was built through some of the
most inhospitable disease ridden terrain in the world, to supply the
large Japanese army in Burma.

An estimated 13,000 Prisoners of War and 80,000 Asian labourers died
of disease, sickness, starvation and brutality.

The rail route has now been cleared so people can walk safely to sites
of major features. There are some memorials in place and there will
be a formal opening of Memorial and Museum in ANZAC week - 24 April,
1998.

This information can be found at

http://homepages.enterprisse.net/wynnbr/remember/HFPmemorial.htm

The second site is a WW11 Prisoners of War database. Data cards were
made with information from Red Cross cables and other international
messages concerning the status of prisoners. They gave information
such as POW name, rank, service number, where their camp was, when
they were moved etc.

I thought this could be useful because maybe the children could
research some ex POWs. Maybe their grandparents knew some. There are
19,202 records in the Pacific theatre database.

This site can be found at http://wae.com/database/wwiipow.htm
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ooroo

Bad typists of the word, untie!

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