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On the morning of 5 July 1942, I was walking from Ban Pong to Nong Pladuk station under a blue sky with two assistant engineers. I was sweating as I had on the khaki uniform of an army civilian employee, with a sword and leather gaiters. Nong Pladuk is a small station on the Southern Siam main line which runs from Bangkok to the Malaya border.
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Notes
Owen Sanders, Incident at Featherston (Heinemann, New Zealand, 1996) p. 18
Mike Nicolaide, The Featherston Chronicles — A Legacy of War (HarperCollins, New Zealand, 1999).
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Tamayama, K. (2005). Construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway. In: Railwaymen in the War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288263_4
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