Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jack Jennings signed up as a private in the 1st Battalion of the Cambridgeshire Regiment to fight in the Second World War A ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar security forces on Wednesday raided a neighborhood in the country’s largest city that houses state railway workers who have gone on strike to protest last month’s ...

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 ...

The brutal use of British prisoners of war by the Japanese to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma in 1943 was one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War. For the first time in 70 years, ...

Myanmar's ruling military junta said on Aug. 24 that a colonial-era bridge that was once the world's highest railway trestle had been "bombed and destroyed" by anti-coup armed groups. A civil war has ...