TheBurma Railway Memorial is a memorial nearMornington Crescent tube station, inCamden High Street, London, to the thousands of British civilian and militaryprisoners of war in the Far East who died of disease, starvation or maltreatment while building theBurma Railway during theSecond World War .

The memorial was designed by Chris Roche of 11.04 Architects,^[1] following a campaign in theCamden New Journal, and features a granite slab supported by short crossed sections of woodenrailway sleepers and metalrails, mounted on a white circular plinth. The slab bears an inscription, and is also inscribed with an image of an emaciated Far East prisoner of war (FEPOW) drawn by the artistRonald Searle, who was himself forced to work on the Burma Railway.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

The memorial was unveiled on 21 September 2012 byJohn Slim, 2nd Viscount Slim, whose father, Field MarshalWilliam Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, commanded the14th Army in theBurma Campaign during the Second World War.^[7]

• National Memorial Arboretum, which contains another Burma Railway Memorial with a 100 ft (30 m) section of the railway
• Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
• Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery

• Media related toBurma Railway memorial, Camden at Wikimedia Commons

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• Military memorials in London

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