Nam Tok

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Tha Sao was a large POW camp located beyond Wang Yai near the Kwae Noi River, known by the prisoners working on the Death Railway as Tarsao or Tarsau in world war II. It is now known as Nam Tok. It was the headquarters and hospital camp for D-Force (Dunlop Force) and a transit camp for workers marching north. Nam Tok is roughly where Tarsoa railway station once stood, it lies roughly one kilometer from Tonchan South camp which itself lies at the waterfalls.

Picture: Tarsau, St Luke's cemetery, containing 613 graves. The sign above the entrance reads "St Luke's Cemetery Tarsao POW Camp. Consecrated on Easter Sunday 1944 to the glory of God & the memory of the men ...... at Tarsao."

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