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They provided hot water for bathing or washing. But, it cost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373492355-JU3ORYKK7HF6Q3PIFWH4/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours Bandoeng POW camp, Java 1942 Ray drew Sgt. Pilot Geoff Dewey relaxing at the back of his cottage within the camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373645579-R3N2C4XDP0XEKH8E3OTC/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours The Will-o-the-Wisp beetle given to Ray Parkin by Weary Dunlop while both were POWs in Konyu POW camp on the Thai Burma railway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373593256-5DJIKCZS7NGN0CB43AA3/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours Ray Parkin painted the butterflies that flew around the Kwai Noi river and its valleys. In February 1943 he painted little else. He named them and dried others, sticking them to the ceiling of his hut in the camp with slivers of bamboo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373670395-ANN3BT35VSJWXSFG04GF/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours Ray Parkin watercolour. A view from the POW camp in Ohama, 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373302688-P3WSOSZ8R0M5O6GZYJ2B/Parkin+Tent.jpg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours Ray's tent - if it can be called that - in Hintok Mountain camp. The wet season in January 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373132045-6L792R79MVEQQE0X3HNH/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours 'Two Malarias and a Cholera' This is the iconic image of the death railway - the Line. Ray drew this image from memory after watching these three walk back to camp from a work party on the Line. It is now the official emblem of the Changi Museum in Singapore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373707805-C5NVT8AXW3AGETD16B20/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours Tropical flowers from the Bandoeng POW camp on Java, August 1942. Ray loved nature and the colours of Java tantalised him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373553370-X1QLTGBM6O2PTT71AF5R/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours Japanese POW mining camp at Ohama on the main island 1945 Ray Parkin and Charles Edwards were there for the last year of the war. There they saw the Nagasaki bomb mushroom. Petty Officer Ray Parkin drew this at the end of the war, completing it in the weeks he spent waiting to be repatriated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373492355-JU3ORYKK7HF6Q3PIFWH4/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours Bandoeng POW camp, Java 1942 Ray drew Sgt. Pilot Geoff Dewey relaxing at the back of his cottage within the camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373422195-HAL2S897ZPFUN1XJEKLT/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours Bandoeng POW camp, Java 1942 Water boilers were a way of POWs making money in camp. They provided hot water for bathing or washing. But, it cost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373670395-ANN3BT35VSJWXSFG04GF/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours Ray Parkin watercolour. A view from the POW camp in Ohama, 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373707805-C5NVT8AXW3AGETD16B20/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours Tropical flowers from the Bandoeng POW camp on Java, August 1942. Ray loved nature and the colours of Java tantalised him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373645579-R3N2C4XDP0XEKH8E3OTC/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours The Will-o-the-Wisp beetle given to Ray Parkin by Weary Dunlop while both were POWs in Konyu POW camp on the Thai Burma railway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373302688-P3WSOSZ8R0M5O6GZYJ2B/Parkin+Tent.jpg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours Ray's tent - if it can be called that - in Hintok Mountain camp. The wet season in January 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373593256-5DJIKCZS7NGN0CB43AA3/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours Ray Parkin painted the butterflies that flew around the Kwai Noi river and its valleys. In February 1943 he painted little else. He named them and dried others, sticking them to the ceiling of his hut in the camp with slivers of bamboo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1411373132045-6L792R79MVEQQE0X3HNH/image-asset.jpeg Ray Parkin Sketches and Watercolours 'Two Malarias and a Cholera' This is the iconic image of the death railway - the Line. Ray drew this image from memory after watching these three walk back to camp from a work party on the Line. 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Ray drew this image from memory after watching these three walk back to camp from a work party on the Line. It is now the official emblem of the Changi Museum in Singapore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1407275993877-HNQD93JYYRHONV8O9EM3/Parkin+No+01+B352a.jpg Ray Parkin - Japanese POW mining camp at Ohama on the main island 1945 (Copy) Japanese POW mining camp at Ohama on the main island 1945 Ray Parkin and Charles Edwards were there for the last year of the war. There they saw the Nagasaki bomb mushroom. Petty Officer Ray Parkin drew this at the end of the war, completing it in the weeks he spent waiting to be repatriated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b2dbce4b0e9e345831317/1407275998394-PSC7LVX6XCCV1YHUY5RD/Parkin+No+02+B319b.jpg Ray Parkin - Bandoeng POW camp, Java 1942 (Copy) Bandoeng POW camp, Java 1942 Ray drew Sgt. 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