A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway has died aged 104. Jack Jennings survived the brutal forced labour on the railway line, ...

Jack Jennings, who has died aged 104, spent three and a half years as a Japanese prisoner of war and worked as a slave labourer on the Siam-Burma “Death Railway”; he was thought to be the last ...

Even as a young man, Jack Jennings was something of an expert on wood. He knew his oak from his ash, and his elm from his beech. Since leaving school at 14 he had worked with wood, first on the ...

Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese military construction project that inspired a novel and ...

A refurbished visitors centre is reopening at Hellfire Pass in Thailand, giving people a picture of the horrors faced by Allied soldiers forced to work there in WWII Seventy five years ago this year ...

Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese military construction project that inspired a novel and ...