Rambai muchinyora ndima iyi - Haasi munhu wose akanga akagadzirira kuzviisa pasi: John Crawley akaunganidza maOfficer 60 nevarume, akawana junk ndokuenda kuSumatra. Gare gare vakaenda kuCeylon, asi vakabatwa vasati vasvika pakachengeteka. Crawley akapedza nguva yasara yehondo somubatsiri ane unyanzvi womusasa wevasungwa vehondo muSiam, uye akarohwa zvakaipisisa nevarindi vechiJapan nokuda kwokusateerera kwake. Pashure pehondo, akagara muBangkok kuti abatsire kudzorera kumusha vasungwa vehondo. Lieutenant-Colonel C.E. Mackellar, mutungamiri wehurumende, akanga ari musungwa mushure mekunge Kut yakombwa
muHondo Yenyika Yokutanga. Iye, nomutevedzeri wake mukuru Major Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 10th Baronet, vakapukunyuka misasa yevarwi yakakurumbira paBurma Railway. Mackellar akaomerera pakuchengeta mitemo mumisasa, uye akapedza mwedzi yakawanda ari oga. Varume 182 vomurwi vakafa, vachimanikidzirwa kushanda panjanji yeBurma. Vamwe 72 vakafa vari nhapwa pashure pokunge basa rapera, kubatanidza 43 apo konvo yeJapan yaitakura vasungwa ichienda kuJapan yakarwiswa nezvikepe zveU.S. Navy.