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West Sumatra and the Pekanbaru Death Railway

19/5/2017

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​In 1942 my great-grandfather, Dirk Huisken was captured by the Japanese in Sumatra. As a prisoner of war he became part of what has come to be known as the Pekanbaru Death Railway – 220kms of rail through the most impossibly rugged and mountainous terrain. Dirk, along with 1000’s of Allied soldiers and civilians and well over 100,000 press-ganged Javanese labourers died while building the railway line, which ironically, was completed on the day Japan surrendered and and was never used.


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    Dr Portland Jones and Sophie Warren

    Sophie and Portland live and work together in the Swan Valley. They are both focused on implementing evidence-based training methods in order to improve the welfare of horses and the safety of riders. Sophie and Portland train horses, coach, lecture, write and run a team of competition horses as well as managing a family of children, dogs and two rodent eradicating cats.

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