Category:To the Kwai and Back, War Drawings 1939–1945

Media in category "To the Kwai and Back, War Drawings 1939–1945"

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  "... and so, on 15 February, Singapore capitulated to prevent further massacre...We were more curious than apprehensive to see the unstoppable and, until now, virtually invisible army that had kept us on the ru Art.IWMART157476.jpg 800 × 521; 110 KB
  
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  "....and on 13 January 1942, after a voyage of two and a half months, we disembarked at Singapore Island in torrential rain...Shortly after, unfit, unacclimatized, unenthusiastic and untrained in jungle warfare Art.IWMART15746A2.jpg 5,230 × 3,344; 6.2 MB
  
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  "...The retreat to the Bakri - Yong Peng road, after one of the most bloody battles of the campaign, was a shock baptism for us...my final memory of Yong Peng and Ayer Hitam was of feeling my skin blister as we Art.IWMART15746G1.jpg 800 × 513; 112 KB
  
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  "...The retreat to the Bakri - Yong Peng road, after one of the most bloody battles of the campaign, was a shock baptism for us...my final memory of Yong Peng and Ayer Hitam was of feeling my skin blister as we Art.IWMART15746G2.jpg 800 × 511; 91 KB
  
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  "...The retreat to the Bakri - Yong Peng road, after one of the most bloody battles of the campaign, was a shock baptism for us...my final memory of Yong Peng and Ayer Hitam was of feeling my skin blister as we Art.IWMART15746H.jpg 5,159 × 3,390; 7.39 MB
  
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  "...The retreat to the Bakri - Yong Peng road, after one of the most bloody battles of the campaign, was a shock baptism for us...my final memory of Yong Peng and Ayer Hitam was of feeling my skin blister as we plunged Art.IWMART15746G2.jpg 5,232 × 3,343; 6.8 MB
  
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  "...The retreat to the Bakri - Yong Peng road, after one of the most bloody battles of the campaign, was a shock baptism for us...my final memory of Yong Peng and Ayer Hitam was of feeling my skin blister as we plunged Art.IWMART15746G1.jpg 5,220 × 3,351; 6.94 MB
  
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  "...The retreat to the Bakri - Yong Peng road, after one of the most bloody battles of the campaign, was a shock baptism for us...my final memory of Yong Peng and Ayer Hitam was of feeling my skin blister as we plunged Art.IWMART15746H.jpg 800 × 526; 98 KB
  
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  "...We eventually lumbered off in our trucks to seek a unit that would take us in, finally ending up with the remnants of the carved-up 11th Indian Division, where the Bengal Sappers and Miners fed us a consoli Art.IWMART15746E1.jpg 4,121 × 4,244; 6.19 MB
  
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  "After all the excitement of our two African halts, and with two more weeks at sea....we settled down peacefully for the long journey across the Indian Ocean... Art.IWMART15746100.jpg 800 × 587; 56 KB
  
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  "After all the excitement of our two African halts, and with two more weeks at sea....we settled down peacefully for the long journey across the Indian Ocean...to settle comfortably on the shady side of the dec Art.IWMART1574698.jpg 581 × 800; 49 KB
  
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  "After all the excitement of our two African halts, and with two more weeks at sea....we settled down peacefully for the long journey across the Indian Ocean...to settle comfortably on the shady side of the dec Art.IWMART1574699.jpg 649 × 800; 53 KB
  
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  "First, at Changi, we lay on the ground where we fell. Later we were allotted accommodation in India Lines - sixty men to each ex-Punjabi wooden hut thatched with palm fronds...Next we stole anything as yet uns Art.IWMART1574718.jpg 613 × 800; 81 KB
  
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  "First, at Changi, we lay on the ground where we fell. Later we were allotted accommodation in India Lines - sixty men to each ex-Punjabi wooden hut thatched with palm fronds...Next we stole anything as yet uns Art.IWMART1574719.jpg 567 × 800; 106 KB
  
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  "First, at Changi, we lay on the ground where we fell. Later we were allotted accommodation in India Lines - sixty men to each ex-Punjabi wooden hut thatched with palm fronds...Next we stole anything as yet uns Art.IWMART1574720.jpg 557 × 800; 84 KB
  
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  "First, at Changi, we lay on the ground where we fell. Later we were allotted accommodation in India Lines - sixty men to each ex-Punjabi wooden hut thatched with palm fronds...Next we stole anything as yet uns Art.IWMART1574721.jpg 549 × 800; 45 KB
  
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  "First, at Changi, we lay on the ground where we fell. Later we were allotted accommodation in India Lines - sixty men to each ex-Punjabi wooden hut thatched with palm fronds...Next we stole anything as yet uns Art.IWMART1574722.jpg 579 × 800; 50 KB
  
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  "First, at Changi, we lay on the ground where we fell. Later we were allotted accommodation in India Lines - sixty men to each ex-Punjabi wooden hut thatched with palm fronds...Next we stole anything as yet uns Art.IWMART1574726.jpg 644 × 800; 79 KB
  
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  "First, at Changi, we lay on the ground where we fell. Later we were allotted accommodation in India Lines - sixty men to each ex-Punjabi wooden hut thatched with palm fronds...Next we stole anything as yet uns Art.IWMART1574728.jpg 800 × 471; 24 KB
  
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  "First, at Changi, we lay on the ground where we fell. Later we were allotted accommodation in India Lines - sixty men to each ex-Punjabi wooden hut thatched with palm fronds...Next we stole anything as yet uns Art.IWMART1574736.jpg 693 × 800; 107 KB
  
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  "Food was increasingly scarce - a little rice with the odd trimmings, plus anything edible that walked, wriggled or flew, or that could by scrounged or bartered throught the wire - and at best we hit 400 calori Art.IWMART1574735.jpg 800 × 633; 111 KB
  
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  "Not surprisingly there were moments when the journey lost its reality and became hallucinatory. Between the half sleeping and half waking, the unremitting movement became hypnotic and through the open doors, t Art.IWMART1574767a.jpg 800 × 509; 84 KB
  
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  "Of the 65,000 Indian Army troops taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore...25,000 accepted...that the Japanese...needed them to help drive (Britain) out of East Asia. Consequently they retained their arms and Art.IWMART1574744.jpg 617 × 800; 88 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt). Art.IWMART1574620.jpg 530 × 800; 60 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt). It arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 8 Art.IWMART1574619.jpg 800 × 486; 49 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt). It arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 8 Art.IWMART1574621.jpg 498 × 800; 43 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt). It arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 8 Art.IWMART1574622.jpg 507 × 800; 48 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt). It arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 8 Art.IWMART1574623a.jpg 497 × 800; 54 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt). It arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 8 Art.IWMART1574623b.jpg 523 × 800; 66 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt). It arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 8 Art.IWMART1574624.jpg 580 × 800; 59 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt). It arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 8 Art.IWMART1574625.jpg 519 × 800; 53 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt). It arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 8 Art.IWMART1574626.jpg 567 × 800; 58 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt). It arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 8 Art.IWMART1574627.jpg 485 × 800; 37 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt). It arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 8 Art.IWMART1574628.jpg 620 × 800; 68 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt). It arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 8 Art.IWMART1574629.jpg 490 × 800; 41 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt). It arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 8 Art.IWMART1574630.jpg 488 × 800; 46 KB
  
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  "On 29 October 1941 the 53rd Brigade (18th Division) embarked on the Polish troop carrier 'Sobieski' at Gourock in Scotland, to sail for an unknown destination (Egypt)." Art.IWMART1574631.jpg 557 × 800; 78 KB
  
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  "On 8 May 1943 my turn came to go and the fourteen months of incarceration in Changi prison camp ended with this idyllic little sketch made at the limit of our area. With my back to the wire, under gently swayi Art.IWMART1574765.jpg 662 × 800; 133 KB
  
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  "Our battle, or rather our retreat...lasted a whole month. The confusion was unbelievable throughout - at least around us...we lumbered on with our desert warfare equipment - gas masks included." from 'To the K Art.IWMART15746B.jpg 507 × 800; 95 KB
  
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  "Our battle, or rather our retreat...lasted a whole month. The confusion was unbelievable throughout - at least around us...we lumbered on with our desert warfare equipment - gas masks included." from 'To the Kwai - and Art.IWMART15746B.jpg 3,330 × 5,252; 6.64 MB
  
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  "Some of use were already getting that slightly glazed look of the imprisoned..." from 'To the Kwai - and Back" by Ronald Searle Art.IWMART1574724.jpg 587 × 800; 61 KB
  
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  "Some of use were already getting that slightly glazed look of the imprisoned..." from 'To the Kwai - and Back" by Ronald Searle Art.IWMART1574725.jpg 574 × 800; 53 KB
  
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  "The plight of the refugees was appalling. Something like half a million people - mostly Chinese it seemed - had fled before the advancing Japanese." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle Art.IWMART15746C1.jpg 3,252 × 5,379; 5.93 MB
  
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  "The plight of the refugees was appalling. Something like half a million people - mostly Chinese it seemed - had fled before the advancing Japanese." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle Art.IWMART15746C2.jpg 3,722 × 4,700; 6.16 MB
  
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  "The plight of the refugees was appalling. Something like half a million people - mostly Chinese it seemed - had fled before the advancing Japanese." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle Art.IWMART15746C3.jpg 5,941 × 2,940; 5.6 MB
  
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  "The plight of the refugees was appalling. Something like half a million people - mostly Chinese it seemed - had fled before the advancing Japanese." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle Art.IWMART15746D.jpg 3,322 × 5,264; 5.25 MB
  
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  "The plight of the refugees was appalling. Something like half a million people - mostly Chinese it seemed - had fled before the advancing Japanese." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle Art.IWMART15746E2.jpg 3,755 × 4,658; 5.87 MB
  
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  "The plight of the refugees was appalling. Something like half a million people - mostly Chinese it seemed - had fled before the advancing Japanese." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle Art.IWMART15746E3.jpg 4,265 × 4,101; 5.35 MB
  
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  "The plight of the refugees was appalling. Something like half a million people - mostly Chinese it seemed - had fled before the advancing Japanese." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle Art.IWMART15746E4.jpg 3,413 × 5,125; 5.6 MB
  
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  "The plight of the refugees was appalling. Something like half a million people - mostly Chinese it seemed - had fled before the advancing Japanese." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle Art.IWMART15746F1.jpg 367 × 800; 71 KB
  
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  "The plight of the refugees was appalling. Something like half a million people - mostly Chinese it seemed - had fled before the advancing Japanese." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle Art.IWMART15746F2.jpg 3,174 × 5,511; 5.54 MB
  
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  "The plight of the refugees was appalling. Something like half a million people - mostly Chinese it seemed - had fled before the advancing Japanese." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle Art.IWMART15746F3.jpg 3,335 × 5,243; 5.84 MB
  
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  "Whilst awaiting our turn to be dispatched into the unknown, the north-east monsoon came and went and by the time our cat had kittens, we had already been imprisoned a year. The kittens were born on 2 March 194 Art.IWMART1574764a.jpg 800 × 750; 69 KB
  
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  "Whilst awaiting our turn to be dispatched into the unknown, the north-east monsoon came and went and by the time our cat had kittens, we had already been imprisoned a year. The kittens were born on 2 March 194 Art.IWMART1574764b.jpg 800 × 800; 62 KB