This is a series of historical markers that mark the route and history of the railway that came to be known as the Death Railway, built by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II using Allied prisoners-of-war and conscripted Asian laborers at great loss of life.
On this site on May 30, 1942, 1,000 Houston volunteers took the oath of service in the United States Navy and dedicated their lives to avenging the cruiser USS Houston and her valiant crew lost in the Battle of the Java Sea — — Map (db m66151) HM WM
Mobilization site Battery F of World War II's Lost Battalion Battery F, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, 36th Division, Texas National Guard mobilized here November 1940, for active duty. Sailed from San Francisco, November 1941, was at . . . — — Map (db m119304) HM
To the memory of those honored members of The Lost Battalion Native sons Members of the 2nd Battalion 131st Field Artillery 36th Infantry Division
On March 8, 1942, these gallant men were taken prisoner by the Japanese on Java. Held captive . . . — — Map (db m128745) HM WM
(northwest face)
In memory of
thousands of Allied prisoners of war (POW)
& Asian labourers
(principally from Malaya, Burma and Thailand)
who gave their lives
or suffered inhuman treatment.
Information panel,
Thailand . . . — — Map (db m237945) HM WM
After entering the Second World War in December 1941, Japanese forces quickly overran most of South East Asia. In
1942, in order to find a shorter and more secure line of supply between Burma (now Myanmar) and Siam (now Thailand),
the . . . — — Map (db m231181) HM
Koninkrijk der Nederlanden Kingdom of the Netherlands
Dit gedenkteken is opgericht ter nagedachtenis van de Nederlandse krijgsgevangenen die overleden zijn in Birma en Thailand en van wie het stoffelijik . . . — — Map (db m228251) WM
Mr. Takashi Nagase (Fujiwara) born in Okayama
City, Japan, in 1918. He was a university student before
he joined the Japanese army. Later the army sent him to
work on the Death Railway construction from Thailand
to Myanmar (1941-1943) as an . . . — — Map (db m238330) HM
In honoured remembrance of the fortitude and sacrifice of that valiant company who perished while building the railway from Thailand to Burma during their long captivity. Those who have no known grave are commemorated by name at Rangoon, Singapore, . . . — — Map (db m228369) WM
JEATH war museum was established by chief abbot of Watchaichumpol (Ven.Phra Thamkhunaporn) in 1977 to
maintain a memory and to dedicate to the victims of the constructions of the River Kwae Bridge
and the Death Railway from Thailand to Burma . . . — — Map (db m238334) HM
1939 1945
These soldiers died
serving their country
and the cause of freedom
and lie buried
elsewhere in Thailand.
INDIAN FORCESThe Corps of Royal Indian Engineers
Lance Naik Karam Khan
Sapper Gadir Khan . . . — — Map (db m228307) HM
To Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Railway, 1942 1992.
The railway was one of the great engineering feats of the Second World War. Asian labourers and prisoners of war (P.O.W.) moved 7 million cubic metres of earth and rock in . . . — — Map (db m227953) HM
Welcome to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Chungkai War Cemetery.
During the Second World War tens of thousands of Commonwealth, Dutch and American service personnel became prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese.
In 1942, the . . . — — Map (db m230117) HM WM
慰 靈 to comfort spirits(Japanese inscription on the reverse)
Misfortunes during the construction of the Thai-Burma railway link caused the death of laborers from southern . . . — — Map (db m225680) WM
1. During the Second World War the Japanese Army constructed a military railway line branching off the southern
line at Nong Pladuk station, km 64-196. This line crossed over the River Kwai at Kanchanaburi, traversed along
the bank of Khwae Noi . . . — — Map (db m227188) HM
The Bridge over the River Kwae was built during the Great Pacific War when Japan declared war on the United States of America and England, later became a part of World War II. The bridge was begun in October, 2485 B.E. (1942 A.D.) and completed in . . . — — Map (db m227908) HM
In memory of
the approximately seven hundred servicemen of
the United States of America, who as prisoners
of war of the Japanese during World War II were
moved to Thailand and Burma, interned in prison
camps and forced to work on the . . . — — Map (db m225679) HM WM
The Hellfire Pass (Konyu) cutting is an example of the type of
excavations of the 415 km Burma-Thailand railway constructed in
1942-1943 by American, Australian, British and Dutch Prisoners of
War and conscripted nationals from Burma, Malaya and . . . — — Map (db m226956) HM
In memory of
Sir Edward Weary Dunlop
AC, CMG, OBE, KSI, MS, FRCS, FRACS, FACS, DSC.,
Patron of the Association and
Surgeon of the Jungle, whose ashes were scattered
in this area on 25th April 1994.
From 1942 to 1945 Weary Dunlop and his . . . — — Map (db m226967) HM
(translated from the Thai) Dedicated to Japanese soldiers who were killed in action or died of disease in this area of BanPong during World War II, 24842486 (1941-1943).
Erected 6 Nov 2534 (1991) — — Map (db m225683) WM
In memory of the tens of thousands of British civilian and military personnel who suffered incarceration, many dying, in the Far East during the Second World War 1939 - 45, including those forced to labour on the Burma Railway. They ask for nothing . . . — — Map (db m120043) WM
