Lot 102
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A small quantity of unframed pen and ink sketches and drawings by Ronald William Fordham Searle (b.1920) of war camp subjects, including: Freight train to Thailand; Bogged transport; Sick bay; The meal queue; Marching up the jungle path; Every day; Tent life and emaciation; A burial, and others, variously signed and inscribed
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more Property from the Estate of Captain Frank Edward Weatherston Lammert RNR, DFC, CBE
A small quantity of unframed pen and ink sketches and drawings by Ronald William Fordham Searle (b.1920) of war camp subjects, including: Freight train to Thailand; Bogged transport; Sick bay; The meal queue; Marching up the jungle path; Every day; Tent life and emaciation; A burial, and others, variously signed and inscribed

A small quantity of unframed pen and ink sketches and drawings by Ronald William Fordham Searle (b.1920) of war camp subjects, including: Freight train to Thailand; Bogged transport; Sick bay; The meal queue; Marching up the jungle path; Every day; Tent life and emaciation; A burial, and others, variously signed and inscribed

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A small quantity of unframed pen and ink sketches and drawings by Ronald William Fordham Searle (b.1920) of war camp subjects, including: Freight train to Thailand; Bogged transport; Sick bay; The meal queue; Marching up the jungle path; Every day; Tent life and emaciation; A burial, and others, variously signed and inscribed
7 x 5in. (17.8 x 12.6cm.) and smaller (10)
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Lot Essay

During World War II Ronald Searle served with 287 Field Co, Royal Engineers from 1939, contributing to Daily Express (1939), Discovery, London Opinion (1940) and Lilliput (1941) until captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore and from 1942 to 1945 was a prisoner of war in Siam and Malaya. During this time he befriended the brother of Captain Lammert to whom he gave these sketches.

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