A Gurkha soldier guards Japanese prisoners on their way to POW camps outside Bangkok, September 1945. Second World War in Colour The canaries were kept not

The canaries were kept not only to cheer the wounded but also to give warning of gas attacks

British paratroops inside a C-47 transport plane to land with the First Allied Airborne Army on enemy-held Holland

ROYAL AIR FORCE FERRY COMMAND

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takes a photograph from one of the starboard windows

A Gurkha soldier guards Japanese prisoners on their way to POW camps outside Bangkok, September 1945. Second World War in Colour The canaries were kept notOne of the Gurkha sentries posted to oversee disarmed Japanese soldiers as they wait to board trains that will carry them to prisoner of war camps outside the city of Bangkok.