Kanchanaburi is Thailand´s third largest of 76 provinces. It is located 130 km west of Bangkok. About 735,000 inhabitant are living in Kanchanaburi province which borders Myanmar (Burma) at the north-west.
It is situated on the
River Kwai and the home of the world famous
Bridge on the River Kwai, immortalized
in Pierre Boulle´s same named novel and David Lean's movie.
Internationally famous, thanks the several motion pictures and books, the black
iron bridge was brought from Java by the Japanese supervision by
Allied prisoner-of-war labour as part of the Death
Railway linking Thailand with Burma(Myanmar).
In 1943 thousands of Allied Prisoners of War (PoW) and Burmese labourers
worked on the Death Railway under the
imperial Japanese army in order to construct part of the 415 km
long Burma-Thailand railway. Most of these men were Burmese, Australians,
Dutch and British and they had been working steadily southwards
from Thanbyuzayat (Burma) to link with other PoW on the Thai side
of the railway.
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