The National Memorial Arboretum gains a piece of the Death Railway.
Photos coutesy of W. Roy Yates

Ex prisoners of war and their families carry sections of Death Railway track to lie on sleepers also from the original railwaycarrying the track
The first section laidfirst section
Laying the second sectionsecond section
The Burma Star Memorial StoneBurma Star Stone
Wide-angle shot of track and stonewide view of site
Far East Prisoners of War CrossFEWPOW Coss

The National Memorial Arboretum is being set up as an educational and cultural centre on reclaimed land at Alrewas in Staffordshire. It is hoped to be complete by summer 2005.
COFEPOW who are trying to raise the money to fund this worthwhile project have a website at http://www.cofepow.org.uk

"When you go home
Tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow
We gave our today"

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