Adventure Documentary on Thailand-Burma Railway 2011 - Tracing Shadows
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- The story of Luke and Rachel’s (siblings) adventure where they walk 330km+ across western rural Thailand. They follow, as closely as possible, the 300km+ route the F Force were forced to march as Prisoners of War during WWII before construction of the infamous Death Railway in Thailand.
WoW, this documentary deserves a million views and more! I feel like my feet are exploding just by watching this. This documentary is just simply awesome!!!
Amazing Work ❤
Hopefully I will do the same journey you did in 2022 hopefully after gathering some fund and Corona situation get better I visit the death railway at 2011 also when I was kid hopefully my communication will be easy we a family in Thailand also
well done guys - you did a very good thing here - the men who worked and suffered and died on that railway would have universally appreciated what you have done in their memory. Thank you on behalf of all of us who havent taken the time to reflect and pay our respects to those who sacrificed for our freedom.
I look at the young travellers of today in Thailand drinking buckets of booze and insulting local culture and i highly doubt the majority of them even know of the railways existence or of the ww2 history in the region - so sad.
You two had a lot of balls 👍 This is one of the few watchable TH-cam travelogues on the Thailand-Burma Railway. A lot of TH-camrs treat it like a Disney Park and can't use a camera; at least you've given the appropriate gravity and respect for the prisoners' suffering. Also you remind people that the railway is a war crime memorial.
Absolutely Love it.Been there my self 4 times and cannot forget the sacrifice those boys made. My uncle who died there. Leo A O'Loughlin VX47004 2nd 29th Battalion work at Sangkla Burri for 6 months before dying in Kanchanaburri.
My uncle died building this rail way his name was Thomas giles of the Gordon highlanders aberdeen he's was born in 1923 and died in December 1943 he died of malnutrition and brutality he was only 20 years old RIP uncle and all the fallen soldiers .
Having watched this video, I felt how insane humans could be. How difficult and torturous it must have been for the prisoners and the collies while construction. Your daring deserves a big salute, both of you are amazingly courageous.
Thank you. I was at the Bridge over the River Kwai last week. Real heavy feelings till now. Great tribute, thank you once again both.
Lest the world in 2020 NEVER forget what those great brave men gave their lives for....OUR FREEDOM
What a very humbling experience. So glad I have watched this. Thank you.
Dear Luke, I have seen many documentaries about the death railway, but seeing the landscape as it is now with all the people in it (whose ancestors may have been there during the war) really gave a new perspective. Thank you, I really enjoyed that.
My cousin James Joseph Towers age 19 Deck Boy on the Empress of Asia was a POW on the Death Railway. He was in H Force which left Changi Jail in Singapore. He arrived Kanchanburi and was put to work at Hintok on the Death Railway. James died age 20 of Dysentery 13th June 1943 in the Malai camp at Hintok. He is buried in Kanchanburi war cemetery. James came from a large Merchant Navy families in Liverpool England. Rest in peace James Joseph Towers, so far from home. Thank you Luke and Rachel for your Video in which yourself and your sister made, with great courage.
My deepest respect for your journey. Thanks for filming and telling the story of so much suffering at the railroad to hell as I see it.
Great job.
Roelof Heikens, Holland.
Very impressive Thank u. Appreciate ur solemn mode. I like that this wasn't a road trip party. As so many people do. It's honest and honorable Add more videos!!
Feel privileged to watch this as my great uncle, Henry Newton (964720) was a gunner with the Royal Artillery of the 137th Field Regiment and somehow he survived three and a half years as Japanese POW. #Nneverforgotten
i watch all the film.. its really an inspiring expedition.. ty luke n rachel for uploadding this videos💚💙💛💜
Today on 75th Anniversary of the 2nd Bomb that caused Japan to surrender I look back and in doing so saw your film, Thank You I am to old and cannot travel now but I would have loved to have done what you did but instead you took me along with you and I so much enjoyed.
Luke and Rachel, Very moving documentary. I was feeling humble to have watched it. Like so many here, we pay our respects to the men and women who built and died constructing the infamous Burma Railway.
today is 75 anniversary of hellfire pass in AUS, i headed to youtube to see if i could find anything on the actual route, and came across you video, thank you for enduring so much hardship to give us just a glimpse of F Force journey, and the amazing thai people . Nice job , Guys.
This is what TH-cam was made for. Nice work.
It is good Friday 2016, I'm sitting here trying to find something of substance to watch, I did and I thank you. My family have been in every war since the Boar War, they are buried in Gallipoli, The Somme, Thailand and some who made it home, are buried here, they have all passed but their memories will never and my children and grandchildren will help it live forever, because it is what we are, who we are and why we are. My father, his three brothers, my mothers brothers and her sisters husbands, my uncles all served in the 2nd World War and my uncle Walter Herbert Cahill QX 17105 2/26Battalion, 27 Brigade, 8 Division 2nd AIF also was a part of F/Force and what you pair achieved was wonderful and I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and only prove what Australian Spirit is, Well done and once more Thank you
Excellent video. I recently visited The Bridge and was a bit disgusted by the lack of reverence of other visitors whose only excuse might have been that they were too young to know better. You have restored my faith somewhat.
It is also worth noting that the Australians were abandoned to a weaker Japanese force.
Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Bennett CB, CMG, DSO, VD[1] (15 April 1887 - 1 August 1962) was a senior Australian Army officer who served in both World War I and World War II. Despite highly decorated achievements during World War I, during which he commanded at both battalion and brigade level and became the youngest general in the Australian Army, Bennett is best remembered for his role in the Battle of Singapore in February 1942 in the Pacific War. As commander of the 8th Australian Division, he escaped while his men became prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army.
- Tomoyuki Yamashita - "My attack on Singapore was a bluff - a bluff that worked. I had 30,000 men and was outnumbered more than three to one. I knew that if I had to fight for long for Singapore, I would be beaten. That is why the surrender had to be at once. I was very frightened all the time that the British would discover our numerical weakness and lack of supplies and force me into disastrous street fighting."
Hey Luke, loved this video, and full respect to you and Rachel for doing this. It took some real guts, and I'm sure it still shapes your lives to this day. I have visited Kanchanaburri a few times and gone to Hellfire Pass for an Anzac day dawn service, it was all so moving. (Hellfire Pass was started on 25 April) I watched as 3 survivors stood together and gave an extremely sad speech describing the deaths on that very spot. There wasn't a dry eye in the small crowd. In Kanchanaburri there is a second cemetery next to the river, its beautiful and very quiet and a great resting place for all those who never came home. RIP, Lest we forget.
Hey, I don't know if it's my place to post this or not, but I just thought I would post a comment to let anyone who loves this documentary know that Luke passed away 3 years ago after a battle with personal issues of which I don't know the full extent.
I just finished watching the great Documentary and was saddened to see your comment. RIP Luke
Very good and moving documentary. The way you try to get an sense of the misery of these poor man by walking it yourselves and sharing how that is for you, makes it vulnerable and beautiful. Thank you!
As a viewer called Aayashaya wrote, humans can be so insane. I went to the museum where the Death Railways Bridge is in 2002. It was very humbling. Figures of all the deaths across the world
compared to this was mentioned at the museum with mention of Hitler and Stalin to name a few. We still haven't learnt the lesson. What you guys did was amazing and a proper respect for all the people that lost their lives both POW and locals. Stan will be proud of what you did.
Thanks for your video and fortitude to take such a grand journey. The quote was right " history does belong to dreamers and risk takers " for they are the people with the courage to adventure.
I walked part of this track way back in 1981. It was all pretty undeveloped then. I can only sympathise with your pain and discomfort. Like you , I think how hellish it must have been for all the young servicemen carrying their meagre kit, force marched through this unbelievable terrain by thuggish Japanese and Korean guards. I knew a few soldiers from my old home town in Scotland, who had survived this dreadful and life-changing experience. Thank you for filming your journey.
You are unbelievable! you got Balls, what a tribute to that Man and his friends. These Thailand people are so nice, I almost envy their simple lives, so many of them suffered horribly.
Cannot say enough good things about this story... Just .... Thank You for sharing it.
It's a great adventure and video,
Rest in peace Luke.
I have just finished the book about a survivor Reg Twigg so I found this video very interesting thank you for sharing.
Very interesting, my deep respect for making this journey.
some cycling rail car whit 2 seats and a box for the stuff it may work next time to traver in a railway line
it doenst need to be fancy,
.......Very Appreciate.......
This is amazing. Really appreciate all the efforts you guys made to make this video and to bring us along the journey. Sincerely thank you!
there is death railway too in Indonesia. Maybe its not as famous as burma DR but its cost soo much lives of the local people and POW... I can't even imagine how suffer they are... Thanks for your amazing journey... it's very inspiring...
Fantastic video, my great uncle George Francis Element was a Pow he died of dysentery at the age of 25 at Tonchan Central camp he's now in the kanchanaburi war cemetery
Thanks for sharing your experiences. Great trip, great adventure, great motivation.
my father and uncle were both on the railway they were sick for the rest of their lives. I thought about doing the pilgrimage but my health has been poor and i am not sure it would be good for my spirit and soul although some families of survivors have found closure on it. There are some amazing charities who support survivor families with research and itineraries if anyone did want to go. What a hell on earth it must have been i could not have lasted a week on it let alone 3 1/2 years.
Great journey along the death railway I ve ever seen on youtube.Appreciate both of you.
Great video. But you should wear a wide-brimmed hat, or at least one with a neckflap, like those popularized by the French Foreign Legion.
Thank you for this wonderful documentary. It was wonderful seeing the simple locals they met. I really liked the Buddhist temples they stayed at. Thailand practices a different form of Buddhism than say China. The southern Buddhist practice a more simple form of Buddhism which they is more like what the Buddha practiced. They deny the existence of God & soul. However, one feels a lot of peace when one is in the presence of the Theravada Buddhist monks. Om!
Grouse vid i watched the whole thing it was just epic.
A big thumbs up. Such good photography, and a meaningful journey.
thank you. you have inspired me.
That a great done guy.
I really want to walk on this rail way ,more as I can do.
Your video make me understand my limitation. Now need to take it out. Thank you for inspiring
riduculous concept second only to going over a waterfall in a barrel
Great adventure mate.
Thats was really nice ....really encourage by what you guys did...big up .
Very interesting and heart warming. It was inspiring❤
Big respect to you both.Well done.
outstanding effort, amazing story amazing video
Wow that not easy your guys make a good job👍👍
I don't know what to say. Just great adventure.
wow so nice.thanks for great vid
Hi Luke, I loved your video and am actually inspired by it and want to do it myself, with a few friends, if you wouldn't mind sharing a few details with us it will be most useful for our planning, such as where you started and finished, could you share some maps with us, where you stayed along the route etc! Many thanks in advance!
Sadly Luke took his own life.
ผมนั่งดูจนจบ พวกเขามีความพยายามมากๆ ผมขอชื่นชมจริงๆ ขอบคุณพี่น้องคนไทยเราที่มีน้ำใจ เอื้อเฟื้อ นี้แหระที่เขาว่าสยามเมืองยิ้ม ผมนั่งดูไปยิ้มไป น้ำตาคลอไป ขอบคุณที่ทำคลิปที่ดีๆแบบนี้ออกมา ขอให้คุณมีสุขสมหวังทุกประการครับผม
คนทำคลิปผู้ชายเสียชีวิตไปแล้วครับ
What a fitting gesture to your Grandfather and the other fallen POW's together with the Asian forced labour on that railway project. I've been in that area a few times, have taken in all of the War Cemeteries and Museums and walked the long open stretch of Hellfire Path, but always wondered what it might be like to trace the whole route. I do think that with the aid of the Thailand Government and the ANZAC, Dutch, British and other Veteran Associations that they could make the whole route an official long footpath. I hope that you turn your experiences into a book with Maps (where allowed) that may serve as a guide to others wishing to follow in your recent footsteps. Respect to you both, but I have to ask myself and anyone else who might listen, what kind of people would give this film a Thumbs Down and WHY!
This was fabulous to watch
whoa good reason to spend an hout
hour
RIP Luke. 😢😢😢
Awesome journey guys!
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i love this video.
Wow
Thank you, LUKE and RACHEL for undertaking this Pilgrimage/Project and so eloquently sharing your experience with us... To see how taxing it is for two young, fit, First World 'Westerners' (?) simply to EXIST in a country as unforgiving as this area is, even now in times of peace, sheds some insight into the horrors shared by Allied POWs during WWII... That those men would have had had it almost unthinkably worse, given the nature of their circumstance, the hopelessness, poor food and living conditions, constant illness and death, daily brutality and overwork, the certain knowledge that in all likelihood one would not survive, an absolute divorce from normality, family, past, future... That ANY of these men survived is testament to the kind of men they were... That they did so while retaining a sense of humanity, 'mateship' and dignity is almost beyond belief... Your journey is a fitting and respectful tribute to everything they survived and, yes, conquered... Young people like YOU are helping to preserve that memory. You have spoken for, (in your unique way...) for the hundreds and thousands of men, those who died and those who survived, who could not or did not speak for themselves... You should be very, very proud of what you have done and shared. Thank you both... xx SF
Nice journey, really It's very much heart touching following the elders track of hardship and survive.
Well done guys
A poignant moving documentary and kudos to both of you for having undertaken an arduous trek to pay tribute to Stan. You have shown us vistas of rural Thailand that we couldn't find in tourist brochures. Interacting with the locals and the monks, and sharing lodge and board with them is indeed, a very unique experience. Thanks again for the amazing video!
Very British. 2 out of condition for distance walking, unfamiliar with where they are going young people, head off for weeks of pain and agony.
Certainly a big walk you did. Cant help but imagine how much easier it would have been for you guys if you had of halved the weight your carrying. You got the kitchen sink in there mate!
I found your channel and show by accident and found it very well done. Having visited much of this area myself.
Good !
Your journey is too risky, especially when accompanied by a young female. Just remember this, there is no mercy in the eyes of thieves. Many occasions people were robbed and murdered. I've heard in your film when the village people had warned you about strangers. Anyhow it is an awesome adventure. Nobody could have done it the way you did!
Very well done video. My dad,my brother and i had planned to go to Vietnam. And to see where he fought at in 1968-69. And pay tribute to all the men who passed away there and to the killing fields of Cambodia, And the railway of death. And i can feel the spirits of the men. Who died there. May they rest in peace.
Big respect to you both what a journey, your steps have shaped mine!, powerful!! Oh how did u guys get back ?
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I truly appreciate your effort in documenting this piece of history. It's a shame so many views but so little 'like'.
I browse you tube quite a lot but looking for this type of adventures but usually get disappointed after a while. This one is stand out from the rest. It is no mean feat to complete that journey. When people wonder around for entertainment you chose entirely different path how you spend your time. Having a direct connection to the brutal history has given it another dimension. Well done and respect your effort and bravado.
Fantastic
Respect.
And you are definitely deserve more subscribers... I hope you made more "tracing shadow" video.
Insane.....👍
My grandad fought on hms warspite, his brother was in the desert rats and my great uncle was killed at dunkirk. not one surrendered. Never surrender. let that be the lesson from all this.
Really well done guys. I have been to the area but never to your extent. People today have no idea what some people went through.
Incredible documentary and journey guys, very inspiring and sobering!
Thank you for the journey you brought us.. history always be in our heart.respect for all those suffer
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"Your steps have shaped mine"
That goes straight to the heart.
good to know you guys do all this before corona happening man..
perhaps another people can't do the same way in the near future
(:
Let us hope they didn't die in vain
Wow, that was amazing, I was captivated
Wow this is really good
Well done guys
what is this beautiful piece of music?
Nice one guys!
We are all one.
You did good job
Many of your people called them " The Japs"
Are you guys think you are the saints, in divine missions? You were at the war.
Do you guys think that your ancestors should have been treated fairly 75 years ago?
I say "No."
Fuck you
Your people never thought these people as humans . Are you?
@@puentecorto2688 incorrect fuckwit
@@Bunno1177 Then fuck you too much
@@puentecorto2688 ignorant fool