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John Mennie
John ('Jack') George Mennie, A.R.M.S. D.A.(ABDN). ARMS.,〔 (26 November 1911, Aberdeen – 24 August 1982, Tirinie, Blair Athol, Perthshire)〔〔 was a Scottish artist who came to public attention in 2011 for his many contemporaneous drawings of his life as a prisoner of war during the Japanese occupation of Singapore and Thailand in World War II. The drawings were made in secret depicting scenes of daily life and personalities in the camps in Singapore and Thailand, working on the Death railway. They also uniquely documented the ''Selarang Square Squeeze'' when some 17,000 prisoners were forced to crowd in the barracks square for nearly five days with little water and no sanitation until they signed a 'promise not to escape'.〔〔(Back from Hell - John George Mennie - Artist and Prisoner of War )〕〔(Daily Mail, 17 September 2011, Amazing lost sketches of life inside Japanese PoW camp discovered in a shoe box by British war veteran's stunned family. by Sarah Graham, )〕 Mennie's drawings were donated to the archive at the Imperial War Museum, but came to wider public notice when a selection from a separate source were featured on an episode of the BBC television programme ''Antiques Roadshow'', filmed on 18 September 2011 at Manchester.〔 ==Early life== John Mennie was born at 28 Clarence Street, Aberdeen, Scotland, on 26 November 1911 to Robert and Margaret Mennie. He was known to family and friends as ''Jack''. He trained at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen and at Westminster School of Art in London.〔 After graduation he worked as a commercial artist in London for eight years until he enlisted in the army in 1940.〔〔(''Back from Hell'', John Mennie, Biography )〕
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