Kanchanaburi War Cemetery & Bridge over the River Kwai

Описание: Please join me for a walk around two infamous locations with a dark history.

The Kwai River Bridge was part of the meter gauge railway constructed by POW's for the Japanese during World War 2.
The real Bridge over the River Kwai is bridge 277 of the Burma-Siam Railway.
It spans crosses the lazily winding Khwae Noi at Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
A small tourist train offers rides across the bridge’s span, while pedestrians can also travel over it on foot.
Cafes and tourist spots dot the banks of the Khwae Noi. It’s a charming, idyllic spot, belying the intense horror and suffering the men who built it went through.
Who were the men who built the Burma-Siam Railway?
60,000 or so Allied prisoners of war, including British, Australian, Dutch and some US troops, alongside more than 200,000 civilian labourers were pressed into service.
Forced labourers were labourers taken from the populations of Japan-conquered territories. They included Chinese, Malayan, Burmese, Thai, Indonesian and Singaporean people.
They would work in appalling conditions, given minuscule amounts of food, snatches of sleep, and little to no medical treatment.

Please click the link from the (Commonwealth war graves commission) below to find out the full history

https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/blog/th...