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The 2007 celebrations of the birth 100 years ago of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop included the erection of this memorial at his home town of Benulla, Victoria
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Three Pagodas Productions was formed in 1986 by three former POWs, Keith Flanagan, Bill Haskell and the late Eddie Saleeba. The sole purpose was to make a documentary about Weary Dunlop and the Burma-Thailand railway. Later they were joined by Rae Hussey, a former AIF nurse who had served in the Middle East and then in the Seventeen-mile Hospital at the Port Moresby end of the Kokoda Track.
Filming for the Documentary began in 1987 when Weary went with them to dedicate the Hellire Pass Walk Trail to the memory of the 13,000 POWs and an estimated 80,000 impressed Asians who had died on the 415-kilometer railway built to support the Japanese "March on Delhi".
The proposal was to make a documentary that blended contemporary and archival footage, explanatory graphics and artist's sketches into a coherent whole. Overall the theme is the passing on of an Australian legend from one generation to another.
The Documentary was finally completed in 2006.
Bill Haskell MBE, Keith Flanagan OAM , Eric Wilson APM and the late Eddie Saleeba, joined by Rae Hussey have devoted their lives to tell the story of this remarkable courageous man. What inspired this loyalty and who are these men and woman who have so tirelessly kept the memory alive of what 'Weary' Dunlop did over 60 years ago?
