"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

"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 unstolen, with which to concoct a bed and arrange a
personal nook of our own..." from 'To the Kwai - and Back" by Ronald Searle
image: A portrait sketch of a British Prisoner of War sitting on his bunk in a hut. He is wearing tropical kit, his arms
are folded and he is smoking a pipe. His personal possessions are arranged around him and include books, papers, a spare pipe, eating
utensils and a pair of socks and a towel hang from a string line above his head. Inscribed in pencil verso 'Matt contemplating

Awan'.