Diggers come to Ballarat to honour 75 years since Hellfire Pass and the Burma Railway

By Caleb Cluff
Updated October 15 2018 - 9:06pm, first published 8:00pm
Survivors: Colin Hamley (left) 99, and Norman Anderton, 98, both worked on the horrendous Burma Railway during WWII as prisoners of the Japanese. Colin Hamley lost his brother to disease there; Norman Anderton barely escaped being bayoneted.
Survivors: Colin Hamley (left) 99, and Norman Anderton, 98, both worked on the horrendous Burma Railway during WWII as prisoners of the Japanese. Colin Hamley lost his brother to disease there; Norman Anderton barely escaped being bayoneted.

Two of Australia’s few surviving ex-prisoners of war from World War II will be in Ballarat on Tuesday to honour their comrades on the 75th anniversary of the completion of the notorious Burma railway.

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