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Among the 13,000 Australian prisoners of war forced to slave on the infamous Thailand–Burma “Death Railway” in World War II were 50 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. One of these – and one of the lucky POWs of any background to make it out alive – was John (“Jack”) Henry Huggins III. He returned to his home town of Ayr in Queensland, met and married the love of his