Sketches

Wartime sketches

Drawings and sketches by prisoners of war

These are sketches by Corporal Richard (Dick) John Cochran 2.12 Field Company (Engineers) whilst in Singapore.

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Havelock

Colour Patches of Australian Units in Malaya 41-42 by Dick Cockram

Havelock

Havelock Road Camp.

The Cookhoouse - 1942

Havelock

Havelock Road Camp.

The MIR Hut - 1942

Havelock Syme Road - Garden.
Illustration from Sketches Roberts Barracks - General Theatre.
Illustration from Sketches Roberts Barracks - Hospital orderlies tent lines.
Illustration from Sketches Roberts Barracks - NAAFI Ward.
Illustration from Sketches Roberts Barracks - View from Dysentery Ward.
Illustration from Sketches

POW Lawyers Cartoon

Reproduced with the kind permission of Dean Alston-Cartoonist at The West Australian Newspapers. Also with permission of the Law Society of Western
Australia.

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Illustration from Sketches "Changi Prison" September 1944.
Illustration from Sketches 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion - Homebuilt Flats.
Illustration from Sketches 2/3 Motor Ambulance Convoy lines and Toddy Collectors
Illustration from Sketches Selereang Barracks - The Square.
Illustration from Sketches

Typical labouring scene- shows sue of chunkle, Jap Engineer and guard with labourers.

by Lt Fred "Smudger" Smith (Ransome Smith)

Illustration from Sketches

PHRA Pathom Chedi “Tallest Buhhdist Monument in the World” Monks and POWs in foreground.

by Lt Fred "Smudger" Smith (Ransome Smith)

Illustration from Sketches

Typical labouring scene. Shows Hammer and Tap, Embankment labouring, Timber felling and an excavated cutting.

by Lt Fred "Smudger" Smith (Ransome Smith)

Illustration from Sketches

Medical Evacuation On The Kwai Noi River 1943

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Drawing by Fred Ransome Smith (Lt Fred (Smudger) Smith- 5th Suffolks) and drawn 2006 from memory.

Illustration from Sketches

Medical Evacuation On The Kwai Noi River 1943

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Drawing by Fred Ransome Smith (Lt Fred (Smudger) Smith- 5th Suffolks) and drawn 2006 from memory.

 

 

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