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Brigadier Sir Philip John Denton Toosey CBE, DSO, TD, JP (12 August 1904 – 22 December 1975) was, as a lieutenant colonel, the senior Allied officer in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Tha Maa Kham (known as Tamarkan) in Thailand during World War II.
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May 16, 2023 · Philip Toosey was a British officer who commanded a POW camp in Thailand during World War II. He saved lives, sabotaged the Death Railway, and befriended his Japanese captors, inspiring the fictional character of Lt. Col. Nicholson in the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Jul 7, 2009 · Philip Toosey was a senior Allied officer who worked to sabotage and delay the construction of the Bridge on the River Kwai during World War II. He was a prisoner of war in Thailand, where he suffered beatings, starvation and tropical diseases, and later became a knight and a president of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Dec 17, 2013 · Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey was the senior British officer concerned with the building of the notorious "Bridge over the River Kwai". Toosey understood from the...
Jul 29, 2017 · Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey was the senior Allied officer in a World War Two camp set up by the Japanese in Thailand to build a railway. He was the inspiration for Sir Alec Guinness's character in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai, but he criticised its "Hollywood" version of events.
Brigadier Sir Philip John Denton Toosey CBE, DSO, TD, JP (12 August 1904 – 22 December 1975) was, as a lieutenant colonel, the senior Allied officer in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Tha Maa Kham (known as Tamarkan) in Thailand during World War II.
