And so it was decided that a railway connecting Thailand and Burma would be constructed through dense tropical jungle over hilly terrain with hundreds of rivers, including the Kwae Noi River ...

Jack Jennings was among 60,000 Allied prisoners forced by the Japanese to build a railway between Thailand and Myanmar, then Burma from 1942 to 1943. In his final weeks at a Torquay care home ...

said the tour guide had revealed that the tourist had come with a group led by the guide from River Kwai bridge and he rode the train to see the death railway, also known as the Thai-Burma Railway.

Mr Jennings was one of 60,000 Allied prisoners forced by the Japanese to build a railway between Thailand and Myanmar, then called Burma. He marked the day at a cafe in Paignton, Devon ...