Welcome to the BTRMA Inc website

We are an organisation run by volunteers, including surviving ex prisoners of war (POW) of the Japanese during World War II who worked on the Burma-Thailand railway, with the following objectives:

Objectives
To perpetuate the memory of the privations and sacrifices of Australian and Allied prisoners of war and the selfless dedication of the medical personnel during the construction of the Burma Thailand Railway by informing current and future generations through all forms of education and particularly with the Annual Quiet Lion Tours to the Burma Thai Railway; the River Kwai; the Three Pagoda Pass; Anzac Day at “Hellfire Pass" and Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.

Vale Bill Haskell

The BTRMA regretfully advises that Prisoner of War of the Japanese William Haskell passed away on Sunday 1st May 2011.

Bill was the co-founder of the BTRMA and the Quiet Lion Tours. His eulogy is reproduced on this web site.

OFFICE BEARERS OF BTRMA 2010-2011

EX OFFICIO COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT

KEN BLADEN OA (Past Chairman) and CHAPLAIN FATHER BARRY MAY OAM

ADVISERS: MILTON FAIRCLOUGH, KEN WOOD, STEPHANIE BLADEN, JACK THORPE OAM.

LIFE MEMBERS.

NEIL MACPHERSON OAM, MILTON (SNOW) FAIRCLOUGH, KEN WOOD, JIM ALLPIKE, WALLY HOLDING OAM, JACK THORPE OAM, ARTHUR BANCROFT, CHARLIE CHAPPLE, ERIC ROEDIGER, GORDON ROBERTS AND BILL MONKS.

DECEASED LIFE MEMBERS

KEITH FLANAGAN OAM, BILL HASKELL OAM, PHILLIP BEILBY, ERNIE REDMAN, GEORGE WISEMAN AND JACK BOON.