Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ba kowa ba ne ya shirya ya mika wuya: John Crawley ya tattara jami'ai 60 da maza, ya sami kayan aiki kuma ya tashi zuwa Sumatra. Daga baya suka tashi zuwa Ceylon, amma an kama su kafin su isa lafiya. Crawley ya shafe sauran yakin a matsayin mai taimakawa na sansanin fursunoni a Siam, kuma masu tsaron Japan sun yi masa mummunan rauni saboda rashin amincewarsa. Bayan yakin, ya zauna a Bangkok don taimakawa wajen dawo da POWs. Lieutenant-Colonel C.E. Mackellar, kwamandan rundunar, ya kasance fursuna ne a baya bayan kewaye da Kut
a yakin duniya na farko. Shi, da mataimakinsa Major Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 10th Baronet, sun tsira daga sansanonin POW da ba a san su ba a kan Railway Burma. Mackellar ya dage kan kiyaye ka'idoji a sansanonin, kuma ya shafe watanni da yawa a cikin kurkuku. Mutane 182 na rundunar sun mutu, an tilasta su yin aiki a kan hanyar jirgin kasa ta Burma. Sauran 72 sun mutu a lokacin da aka kama su bayan an kammala aikin, ciki har da 43 lokacin da jiragen ruwa na Amurka suka kai hari kan jirgin ruwan Japan wanda ke dauke da fursunoni zuwa Japan.