Sketches Of A P.O.W. In Korea (1945) By J. D. Wilkinson
 
J. D. Wilkinson of the AIF, who was taken prisoner-of-war (POW) by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, and later transferred to Korea with a working party of English and Australian POWs. His book of sketches of life as a POW under the Japanese is an insight into the hardship faced by POWs during WWII. 
 
A rare source on British Prisoners of War captured by the Japanese army in 1942 and lived in Korea up to the end of the War in August 1945. A collection of drawings and sketches, prepared under difficult conditions and with poor materials, represents some of the experiences as prisoners of War in Korea during World War II. An illustrated booklet has been released that depicts hundreds of Allied prisoners of war from Britain and Australia captured by the Japanese military during World War II suffering forced labor in Allied prisoner-of-war camps set up on the Korean Peninsula. The 30-page booklet, titled 'SKETCHES OF A POW IN KOREA,' was written and illustrated by an Australian prisoner of war named John Wilkinson. It introduces the Allied POWs’ lives on ships, in the camps, and the state of Korea at the time through pictures and short texts. Interned in Singapore. He disembarked in Busan on September 22, 1942, and was detained in Allied POW camps in Seoul and Hamheung until the end of the war in 1945. 
 
Signed by the author
 
Soft Cover
Unpaginated
In Fair to Good Condition