Fi saved to WW2: Male British War Artists
Ronald Searle Self Portrait, Kanyu, Thailand Jungle, July 1943 Ronald Searle became a prisoner of the Japanese in 1942 after the fall of Singapore. He was held in Changi POW camp before being sent to the Thailand–Burma Railway. During his 3 years of captivity, Searle sketched in secret. Searle used the corners of the drawings as cigarette paper, later explaining ‘However foul and acrid the result it helped to hold off the constant clamouring of the stomach to be sent down something – anything.’