NAM.2002-08-8-25

Sketch map, nd. Map in coloured pencil showing the Thai-Burma railway, with a list of stations. From a collection of 34 documents and press cuttings relating to Bdr Moss Simon, 77th Welsh Regiment, Royal Artillery TA. Part of a collection of material relating to Gnr Moss Simon, 77th Welsh Regiment, Royal Artillery, taken prisoner of war by the Japanese in Java on 8 Mar 1942. He spent the next three years in a number of camps, six of them in Gloduk prison and participated in the construction of the Burma-Thailand railway. Along with Jewish colleagues he took part in the building and consecration of the Synagogue at Changi Jail, about which he wrote an article.

Burma Railway, 1942-43 (World War Two, POWs Far East 1941-1945)