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Margie Riley, has just had the most amazing present from her son – and I really do mean amazing! You can read all about it in her account of this most incredible present she received in which a number of family memories were raised and then a visit to an elephant sanctuary to finish it all off.

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Elephant Heaven.

Some of you will know that my son, Tom, took me on the trip of a lifetime as a present for a Significant Birthday I celebrated some eighteen months ago. We went to Thailand and Singapore a couple of weeks ago; the main purpose of the trip being to visit the Thai–Burma Railway where my father and a much-loved uncle were unlucky enough to become POWs of the Japanese, along with hundreds of thousands of others. Both these remarkable men survived the ordeal, in fact my uncle lived until he was ninety-two. How anyone endured the suffering and then managed to re-enter society, apparently unscathed, is beyond me.

However, this story isn’t about them, although the pilgrimage was. Unbelievably, we were the only two on the scheduled tour through Matt McLachlan Tours (https://battlefields.com.au/ ) so we had our wonderful guide, Pongsin Yingchatdeshokull (no, I have no idea how to pronounce his second name) and the drive

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Journey through history on the Death Railway, Kanchanaburi

Take the slow train from Bangkok Thonburi station and travel west into scenic Kanchanaburi province and a date with history. The first part of the journey offers another perspective on the Thai capital as you travel through the western suburbs before reaching Nong Pladuk junction in Ratchaburi province. And it is here, around 50 miles to the west of Bangkok, where the branch line heads north-west to Kanchanaburi and your journey on the historic Death Railway begins.

Construction of the Thailand-Burma Railway

During World War II, the Japanese army occupied territories that ran from Singapore up to Burma. To supply their forces in Burma and prepare for an attack on the British troops in India, the Japanese army wanted to establish an overland route which would avoid the alternative sea routes where Allied ships were active. With the rail line already in place between Singapore and Bangkok, the Japanese decided to build an additional branch line to the west of Bangkok that would then run north to Burma. The Thailand-Burma railway was constructed in 1942-43 between Nong Pladuk (Thailand) and Thanbuyazat (Burma), a distance of approximately 260 miles.

It’s estimated that 240,000 men were forced to work on the