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Prisoner of War

At serious risk to his safety, Hugh Owen from Mold secretly drew a picture of the Japanese POW camp where he was being held following capture in WWII.


Transcript: speech marks This is a picture of Changi jail that I drew whilst being a prisoner of war. The outside wall was about 10ft high around the jail. There was two gun turrets with Japanese guards in each one of them. I drew it from memory whilst being in there and I never went outside of it to copy any part of it.

The pencil I used, to sharpen it I had to rub it in the concrete floor and it was only about two inches long. If they knew that you'd got it you would suffer because you was not allowed nothing to show where you'd been. Everything there was a secret. They watched everything but I got away with that. I thought to myself, that's worth carrying home that.


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