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Chapters (40)
  1. FOREWORD
  2. RAILROAD OF DEATH
  3. REFERENCE LIST:
  4. Railroad of Death
  5. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION (1948)
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. PART ONE: SINGAPORE
  8. CHAPTER 1
  9. CHAPTER 2
  10. CHAPTER 3
  11. CHAPTER 4
  12. CHAPTER 5
  13. PART TWO: RAILROAD OF DEATH
  14. CHAPTER 6
  15. CHAPTER 7
  16. CHAPTER 8
  17. CHAPTER 9
  18. CHAPTER 10
  19. CHAPTER 11
  20. CHAPTER 12
  21. CHAPTER 13
  22. PART THREE: BASE CAMPS AND LIBERATION
  23. CHAPTER 14
  24. CHAPTER 15
  25. CHAPTER 16
  26. CHAPTER 17
  27. CHAPTER 18
  28. CHAPTER 19
  29. CHAPTER 20
  30. APPENDIX ONE:
  31. APPENDIX TWO:
  32. APPENDIX THREE:
  33. APPENDIX FOUR:
  34. APPENDIX FIVE:
  35. APPENDIX SIX:
  36. APPENDIX SEVEN:
  37. APPENDIX EIGHT:
  38. APPENDIX NINE:
  39. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  40. And The Dawn Came Up Like Thunder
Given in Railroad of Death Real Name/other information
Bill Butcher Lieutenant W.D.V. Burton 4th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment
Bill Reeves Captain Bill Drower 135th Hertfordshire Yeomanry Regiment
Bill Wills Bill Wilson
Bobby Dale Bobby Spong RAOC died 21/9/1944 http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/ 2072236/SPONG,%20ROBERT%20ALBERT [Accessed 4 January 2014]
Camp Commander Lt Colonel Sainter
Chungkai April to June 1943
Camp Commander Chungkai from June 1943 Lt Colonel H. Cary Owtram 137th Field Artillery Regiment RA
Colonel Day Lt Colonel Alfred Knights 4th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment
Colonel Champaigne Lt Colonel Philip Toosey 135th Hertfordshire Yeomanry Field Artillery Regiment
Donald Forrest Donald Webber
Dudley Brown Captain Dudley Gotla RAMC
Dutch Representative Chungkai Concert Party Rene Den Das
Eddie Evans Eddie Edwins
Fizzer Plumbton Fizzer Pearson
Freddie Mills Freddie Thompson
Freiman Louis Taylor-Weber. According to Coast ‘His father was a Dutchman of Anglo-German origin who had married a girl from an aristocratic West Javanese family . . . Taylor Weber became my new Indonesian teacher and while talking with him, I suppose, that the course of my life was changed’. (Coast 1952: 4)
George Tilly Leslie William (George) Sully Manchester Regiment
Gerard le Fevre Gerald Angier
Gibby Field Gilbert Inglefield
Ginger de Huguenot Hugh de Wardener RAMC
Government Anthropologist Pat Noone
Gus Watt Gus Harffey
Henry Baird Henry Fowler 4th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment
Ian White Ian Watt
Jacko (made escape attempt with Sully) Lieutenant Jackson 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment
Jan Hellder ‘There is a very delightful Dutchman, Jan Verhoef, who had been the headmaster of a school in central Java, taught me Dutch as intensively as possible’ (Coast 1952: 5)
Jim Dixon Jim Richardson FMSVF, Intelligence Corp and former Malayan Government Geologist
Johnny Duncan (bald-headed Corporal in a Highland Regiment) Probably John ‘Nellie’ Wallace
Joop Joop Nittel
Leider Otto Liddel (amazing string bass player)
Leo Frick Leo Britt Corporal RAOC
Lt Colonel Featherstonhaugh Lt Colonel John Rowley Williamson (Com - mander Chungkai until April 1943)
Major Woolley Everard Woods
Max Forrest Max Webber
Mick Donovan Captain Michael O’Reilly RAMC
Mike Oakley Lieutenant Michael Alfred Ashton 4th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment
Noel Scott Noel Ross
Norman Broad Norman Smith
Nuts Joyce Lt Colonel AA Johnson 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment
Peter Ayre Captain Maurice Parke Gaymer 4th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment
Philip ‘Flip’ Brugman Filippe van de Broek (Dutch Theatre manager)
Professor from Raffles College Graham Hough
http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19410415.2.93.aspx [accessed 31 December 2013]
Q.M. theatre Major Bill King Major Alfred ‘Bill’ Pycock ROAC
Reginald Benson Reginald Harry Rennison Signalman Royal Corp of Signals, died 12 September 1943 http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2091047/RENISON,%20REGINALD%20HARRY [accessed 5 December 2013]
Russian Doctor Lieutenant Constantine Petrovsky RAMC?
Sandy McCulloch Sandy Munnock Chungkai Camp RSM
Senior Manchester Battalion Officer February 1943 Sully escape attempt Major M.P.E. Evans 1st Manchesters
Stan Fane ‘Nuts’ second in command Major Samuel G. Flick Suffolk Regiment?
Tari Edouard Bertling In Jim Richardson’s diary ‘Sept 16 [1944] Koronchong dancing by Bertling’ and ‘Sat 15th [July 1944] Edouard Bertling, Javanese (Dancer to Sultan Soeman of Solo Central Java), danced the Monkey Dance (Hanuman) and Princes Dance (magnificent) . . .’ (IWM Documents 1705: 85-86)
The Brigadier (18th Infantry Division, 54th Brigade) Brigadier E.K.W.Backhouse
The Padre (Bukit Timah) Probably Rev C.E. Allcock (Royal Army Chaplains Department) attached to 4th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment
The Singing Padre of Changi Rev John Foster Haigh (Royal Army Chaplains Department) http://www.230battalion.org.au/history/stories/NX56826.htm [accessed 31 December 2013] died 23 September 1943 http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2089877/HAIGH,%20The%20Rev%20JOHN%20FOSTER [accessed 31 December 2013]
Tom Stuart Lieutenant Tom Douglas Royal Corps of Signals