Medal - Kanchanaburi Province ND

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Bridge over the River Kwai

Lettering: THE BRIDGE ACROSS THE KWAI RIVER

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The seal of Kanchanaburi Province shows the three stupas on Bantadthong Mountain. They give the name to the mountain pass to Myanmar, called "Three Pagodas Pass".

Kanchanaburi:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchanaburi_province

Three Pagodas Pass:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Pagodas_Pass


The famous bridge of the Burma Railway crosses the river at Tha Makham Subdistrict of the Mueang District. However, this is not the same bridge as depicted in The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle and in its film adaptation. A bridge was built of wood approximately 100 metres (330 ft) upriver from the current bridge, during the construction of the iron and concrete bridge (which runs in a NNE-SSW direction) and also rebuilt in 1945 when the iron bridge was bombed. No remnants of the wooden bridge remain. That wooden bridge was also not the bridge depicted in the film as the river was not called the Kwai Yai at that time. A wooden trestle bridge was built over the Kwai Noi many miles upstream in the jungle and it would more closely resemble the bridge in the film. However, the film is really a fictional depiction of the events with many inaccuracies and neither bridge can really be said to be that depicted in the film.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khwae_Yai_River