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 as the second of 10 children -- having six brothers and three sisters -- to p...