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Amazing lost sketches of life inside Japanese PoW camp
Mail online ^ | 16th September 2011 | Sarah Graham

Posted on 09/16/2011 4:11:10 PM PDT by Charlespg

Astonishing drawings of British soldiers in brutal Japanese Prisoner of War camps have turned up nearly 70 years later on TV's Antiques Roadshow.

The lost sketches showing the appalling conditions the men endured were drawn by artist soldier John Mennie who gave them to fellow PoW Eric Jennings.

Mr Jennings never spoke about his wartime experiences and his family were stunned when they found the sketches stashed away in a shoe box after his death.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: burma; ggg; pow; wwwii
what a find ,and to have survived all that
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