Edward "Weary" Dunlop helped keep his men alive in circumstances that tested the limits of human endurance on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway. PETER FITZSIMONS remembers a courageous chapter in the life of the heroic prison camp surgeon.

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Edward "Weary" Dunlop. Picture courtesy of the Australian War Memorial

Bandoeng. March 26, 1942.

Good God.

Just when things are starting to quieten down, and Weary has time to read and sleep, this happens. Four RAF chaps have arrived, with a total of just three working eyes between them.

'One poor chap had both eyes blown out and both arms blown

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