ALLIED GRAVES LINE SIAMESE RAlLWAY.—Littered along what is now known as the "Death Valley (Railway," built by Allied prisoners who were slave-driven by the Japanese, are thousands of craves of men who were literally worked to death on the job. (British, Australian, and Dutch grave commissions are now engaged on the task of finding, identifying, exhuming, and reburying the bodies in military cemeteries. Two Dutch officers, ex-prisoners of the Japanese, are seen here at the grave of a comrade which they have just located.
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Evening Star, Issue 25699, 24 January 1946, Page 5
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84ALLIED GRAVES LINE SIAMESE RAILWAY.—Littered along what is now known as the "Death Valley (Railway," built by Allied prisoners who were slave-driven by the Japanese, are thousands of craves of men who were literally worked to death on the job. (British, Australian, and Dutch grave commissions are now engaged on the task of finding, identifying, exhuming, and reburying the bodies in military cemeteries. Two Dutch officers, ex-prisoners of the Japanese, are seen here at the grave of a comrade which they have just located. Evening Star, Issue 25699, 24 January 1946, Page 5
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