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Accession Number | REL/11872.008 |
Collection type | Heraldry |
Object type | Heraldry |
Physical description | Steel |
Maker |
Unknown |
Date made | Unknown |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Railway spike fragment : Hellfire Pass, Burma Thailand Railway
Description
Curved, broken off fragment of the tip of a railway spike.
History / Summary
Taken, post Second World War, from Hellfire Pass, a railway cutting 500 metres long and 25 metres deep constructed by Australian prisoners of war between Hintok and Konyu, on the Thai section of the Burma Thailand railway, Hellfire Pass was so called because work continued on it night and day. At night most of the illumination for the work came from fires lit at 6 or 7 metres along the cutting. The light, movement and noise at night was said to resemble a scene from Dante's Inferno.
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