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Captive thousands of miles from home
Manchester Evening News
|August 15, 2025
"DESPAIR, illness, no hope - no idea of when this war was going to end. Apparently forgotten by our friends.
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The haunting words of a Greater Manchester soldier who was held as a prisoner of war in Thailand for three years and forced to work on the infamous Thailand to Burma 'Death Railway', immortalised in the 1957 war film The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Maurice Naylor, a Manchester University graduate who was born in Flixton, Trafford, was 24 when he was held captive by the Japanese in the Far East.
He was lucky to survive. Many didn't - losing their lives to rampant disease and illness, brutal beatings and the unthinkable conditions 'working' on the railway's construction.
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