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Creativity and Ingenuity of British Far East Prisoners of War, 1942 - 45
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Pencil drawing showing prisoners of war sitting down in cramped conditions under the deck of a ship Add to board
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Drawing by a FEPOW: Inside the Ship

The  Japanese forces transported prisoners to different camps, putting them to work on building projects aimed at winning the war. During travels across the sea, men were confined to the holds of small ships for the whole of long and arduous journeys


Image from a sketch of below decks on England Maru, Singapore to Taiwan late 1942, by Padre F. Stallard, © courtesy Stallard family