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What an excellent website Peter. It brings back so many wonderful memories from when I was fortunate enough to take the Quiet Lion Tour 2004. Well done, and I look forward to seeing the continued growth of such a wonderful site.

Peter, this is a worthy tribute to all who suffered and died as POWs on the Thai-Burma railway. A tribute also to the spirit and determination of those who survived and are with us still.
May we never forget the barbaric brutality of the Imperial Japanese Army of that era.

What a fantastic website Peter. It really does bring back a flood of memories from the ANZAC trip 2004, which I was fortunate enough to attend. I still remember our bus trips singing our patriotic songs proudly. Thank you for the wonderful experience. A great website and easy to follow and drive!

Having spoken by phone, it was great to read your research.
Well done, for trying to explain the work done by so many medical servicemen, in the bad times during their work on the railway. My father was there as a Medical Orderly and through his book The Long Way Home our family got to understand much more of his involvement with Weary and Ewan Corlette in particular. Great to read more from your work Peter. Well done and Thanks.

Peter,
Great little web page very interesting and informative.
John

A task and a challenge well met Peter, my contribution I hope depicts another aspect of those mere mortals that were also Gods to us, but who also shared our daily existence. Lt Col Eadie Melbourne Ear Nose & Throat Specialist, elderly to us then, who shared the same bug ridden bamboo slats, the lice, the same hunger, ill treatment yet was expected to provide us at Tanyin Burma with the miracle cure for all our illnesses. Capt Rowley Richards the young tyro, never letting up against a savage over lord, not only on the railway protecting the sick and administering to our needs, but on Jeep Island, Singapore taking punishment on our behalf from -the Jeep- a vicious jumped up Jap NCO in charge of us 600 POWs. Capt John Higgins, loved and respected on the Railway, -Cyclops- to us all, his care and devotion not only while sharing the month long journey to Japan, battened down in the sweat soaked hold of the Awa Maru, but always cheerful while administering to the daily needs of us young Coal Mine workers, wasted skeletons all living with a near use by date.

Peter Im sorry I did not sign this the first time. You have done a superb job here and I will continue to pass your site on to others. Trish and I found the 2004 QL Tour a most moving experience and I feel truly flattered that you were able to use so many of my photos. Im looking forward to the 2005 Tour.

awesome site Peter! its great to see your dedication to the cause. the POWs were and still are inspirations to us all. anzac day in thailand 2002 will be in my mind forever! keep up the good work!

Congratulations on producing a very comprehensive introduction to the Burma-Thailand Railway. The efforts and selfless determination of the medical personnel to support their fellow prisoners of war during captivity was marvellous and was done amongst the most awful working conditions, endemic disease and malnutrition.We will remember them

Brings back memories, we were with you and others April 2001

Toured in April 2004 with wife Kath. Took part in Anzac service in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. A very moving and spiritual experience including Hell-fire pass.
A worth-while venture/tour, particularly with four ex-pows on tour with us.

Hello Peter,
Very interrest work about the 2nd WW in Asia.

As a veteran of another era (1962-84)this website is a deserving tribute. As the President of Perth Legacy it is a stark reminder of why Legacy exists. Many thanks, John

Thank you Peter for your hard work. Well done.
For Mick and I your web page has brought back memories of an unforgettable jouney. We are still trying to comprehend the deprivations inflicted. The poem at the end of Neils address (Anzac day 2004) says it all.

Hi Peter, this is a great web page! Well try to find the information you asked about the Dutch medical staff on the railway. Thanks for the good work, also on behalf of Foundation Friends of the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre.

As Regimental Sergeant Major of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps I have a working and mentor link to our medical past, of which POWs lacked in many ways for many reasons.
This site brings some of the real struggles our fore-soldiers had to contend with. Well Done.

I had the pleasure of attending one of the quiet Lions Burma-Thailand railway tours this year and this website is truly a wonderful addition to the worlds knowledge of those events that occured

Well done!

Very well written web page of a trying time in mens lives. Informative and well illustrated work.
Thanks for presenting this to us.

A most interesting and informative site. The time and effort that has obviously gone into making these pages was well spent. Thank you.

Thank you Peter for your considerable effort in creating this most respectful memorial that will be so accessible to so many.
I am Dr Phil Millards son. Seeing things written about my dad that I hadnt heard before .... about his tough yet compassionate journey with all of you who suffered so harshly is a precious gift to me and no doubt my brothers and sister. I will show this to mum ...his wife Joan ... it wil mean a lot to her of course.
Thanks ....
John

Thanks for this website, Peter. It is a valuable contribution to the subject of the Thai-Burma Railway. There is much about Doc Pavillard in Ron Mitchells memoirs Baba Nonnie Goes to War and also about a Cockney medical orderly called Pinkey Riley -that name should make George Wiseman smile! Another Medical Officer Ron rated very highly was Captain Charles Pitt RAMC on the Tavoy Road in 1944.

As a personal acquaintance of Bill Haskell and having accompanied him on one of his many Anzac trips to Hellfire Pass and adjacent areas I acclaim your efforts in recording for posterity this terrible blot in our history. Thankyou for a job very well done.

A sterling enterprise by Peter Winstanley(and his surviving subjects and the relatives/friends of departed heroes).This is a critical and defining period of Australian,British, Dutch, and even American history,both medical and military,and Peters work in pursuing the facts, and in establishing this website, has prevented much of this material from fading into relative obscurity.

Excellent web page. Very well done Peter.
The events along the Railway during WW II should never be forgotten as they serve as moral, ethical and historical signposts for us all. Study of the whole episode provides lessons in Command, Leadership and survival like no other. All students, of all nationalities, should understand the Railway and learn from it.