A former soldier thought to be the last surviving veteran of the infamous Burma Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings was among 60,000 Allied prisoners forced by the Japanese to build a railway ...

He was one of more than 180,000 forced labourers made to build the Burma Railway which was started 75 years ago. The construction of the infamous railway line saw 16,000 Allied servicemen ...

My father was a survivor of the Burma Railway and these were just some of the horrors that stayed with him until his death. Most adult Australians have heard of the Burma Railway. It is the 415-km ...

Dad's time on the Burma Railway was the formative experience of his life, and those years and those stories and the lore that developed have been part of my life too, and in no small way ...

Schoolchildren sang Happy Birthday to Mr Jennings when he turned 103 A former soldier thought to be the last surviving veteran of the infamous Burma Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings was ...

Fergus Anckorn, who has died aged 99, began his career as a conjurer called “Wizardus” aged 18 when he was the youngest member of the Magic Circle; by the time of his death he was its oldest ...

Even as a young man, Jack Jennings was something of an expert on wood. He knew his oak from his ash, and his elm from his beech. Since leaving school at 14 he had worked with wood, first on the ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] The Shanyang tunnel of the Darui Railway, a major part of the Yunnan-Burma Railway, has been completed recently. Some 14 years of construction work helped connect ...