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Mildura ex-POW Bill Burrell dies aged 101

Allan Murphy

ONE of Mildura’s last surviving ex-prisoners of war died this month aged 101. Finlay William Lewis Burrell, commonly known as Bill, was sent to work on the infamous Thai-Burma railway for its duration following his capture by the Japanese Army in 1942. Mr Burrell, born at Mildura hospital, grew up on a block at Merbein […]

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