BURIAL ALONG THE BURMA-SIAM RAILWAY

We’re at Taunzan, the 60-kilo camp
A place of cholera, disease and death
Where sorrowfully we watch so many of our mates
Bravely, draw their last breath.
Reverently, in silence, with bowed bare heads we stand
As yet another we lay to rest in this foreign land
A faltering prayer is said, and then “Attention squad”
The Last Post is sounded- for a soul returned to God.

R.H.G. Jelley 4th Anti Tank Regt 8th Division. A.I.F. Taunzan, Burma-June 1943