Anankwin

370	45	Anankwin (45 Kilo)
		Also Named:	45 Kilo
			Anaquin
			Anakuin

		Japanese	5th Railway Regiment


		III Group	Dec 42 - Mar 43

No 1 Mobile Force moved here while laying the rails & sleepers before moving to the 60 kilo camp.

Notes:

Burma-Thailand Railway. c. 1943. Prisoners of war (POWs) carrying sleepers in Burma, about forty kilometres south of Thanbyuzayat 1943

Australians laying sleepers

Taken 1943

The photo is available from http://www.awm.gov.au

British Sumatra Battalion

End April 1943

Instead of building embankments or laying sleepers and track the British Battalion and Americans were put to work unloading the sleepers and track from steam trains and then reloading them onto small diesel trucks. The food was a lot better at this camp but the monsoon season was nearly upon them. on the 2nd may 1943 the Battalion and Americans were moved back to Helpauk.

Information from British Sumatra Battalian by A.A. Apthorp

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