Comments on: How to Visit Thailand’s Hellfire Pass and the Death Railway

By: Sarah Carter

Sarah Carter — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 02:30:11 +0000

In reply to phil. Have a great visit, and I hope you get as much out of it as we did!

By: phil

phil — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 12:51:42 +0000

Love your article I go next week to hellfire pass Phil the strayalien

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 19:09:48 +0000

Have been to the Punchbowl Cemetery in Hawaii and was moved by the site. Visited Hellfire Pass in Feb. 2020 and could not imagine anything like this. My father fought on Midway Island during WW2 and told stories of his experiences. Hellfire Pass certainly gave me a new meaning to the term ” War is Hell! ” Keep up the good work.

By: Des Akers

Des Akers — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 02:59:49 +0000

Great article. Well done. Des Akers Melbourneh

By: Patrick Shepherd

Patrick Shepherd — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 22:39:48 +0000

In reply to ASocialNomad. Sorry no, I spent my time on a pilgrimage of the sites where my uncle could have been as Royal Engineer with D Force, and around Kanchanaburi and a day at an elephant sanctuary. I'm just finding out now from my research that there may have been another battalion of D Force , mostly Brits, working on preparing Hellfire pass in early April of 1943, that's still under research though.

By: ASocialNomad

ASocialNomad — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 05:48:22 +0000

In reply to Patrick Shepherd. I agree Patrick, it is the most moving place I've travelled to. Have you visited the Myanmar side of the railway at all? Or the area of the Sandakan Death Marches? We're planning both shortly, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

By: Patrick Shepherd

Patrick Shepherd — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 23:50:05 +0000

The first 400 men assigned to Hellfire Pass Cutting were Australians of D Force but when the schedule wasn’t as quick as was wanted then they assigned four hundred British from H Force to work on the pass as well, in addition to these men there were small parties broken out of other groups and taken as needed and of course there were many Malay and Tamil civilians too. I found my walk through Hellfire Pass to e somewhat disturbing in a psychological sense

By: ASocialNomad

ASocialNomad — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 08:23:34 +0000

In reply to Robin Docksey. Thanks Robin, this day and this place was without a doubt the most moving place I have visited, its history just sears into you and won't let go.

By: ASocialNomad

ASocialNomad — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 08:21:12 +0000

In reply to Marilyn. Thanks Marilyn. This was a Bucket List place for me to visit for completely different reasons than, say, the Great Wall. I am so very glad that I had the opportunity to pay my respects here.

By: Robin Docksey

Robin Docksey — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:54:49 +0000

Sarah. I read this through and was deeply impressed by it. Thank you for writing this.