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Notes:
British Sumatra Battalion
January 13th 1944
The British Sumatra Battalion had been working the railway from the Burma end from October 1942, the majority being sick, were transported from Changaraya to Kan’Buri Hospital arriving January 13th 1944. When they arrived they found a large camp with about 1000 British already there. A fence was built dividing the camp into equal two parts. Parties did work within the town of Kanchanburi but it was not regarded as a working camp. Local traders sold their goods in the canteen and the health of the Battalion improved, the death rate falling dramatically.
The Battalion was now less then three hundred and was to be split once more. The prisoners were inspected by a Japanese Medical Officer on 23rd March 1944 and the fit were listed to be transported to Japan, they were to be moved first to Tha Makhan.
Information from British Sumatra Battalion by A.A. Apthorp
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