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Ashley George Old (born 1913, d. 2001) was an artist best known for documenting the lives of prisoners of war forced to construct the Thailand-Burma Railway. During World War II he was stationed in Singapore, and when it fell to the Japanese in February 1942, he was taken prisoner and sent to work on the aforementioned Death Railway .
Ashley George Old (b. 1913, d. 2001) was an artist best known for documenting the lives of prisoners of war forced to construct the Thailand-Burma Railway. He trained at Northamptonshire College of Art, then the Clapham School of Art.
Ashley George Old (born 1913, d. 2001) was an artist best known for documenting the lives of prisoners of war forced to construct the Thailand-Burma Railway. He trained at Northamptonshire College of Art, then the Clapham School of Art.
Ashley George Old was an artist best known for documenting the lives of prisoners of war forced to construct the Thailand-Burma Railway. He trained at Northamptonshire College of Art, then the Clapham School of Art.
One of the many interesting stories we have found over the years was that of Ashley George Old (b. 1913, d. 2001). Artist and Japanese POW. With the 70th anniversary of VJ day we are publishing his photo and reminding everyone of his story.
ASHLEY George Old could be the most gifted artist you’ve never heard of.
Moon commissioned Ashley George Old, an artist and fellow prisoner, to capture unusual diseases and war wounds. Old was planted in a hospital as a fake patient, so that he could paint subjects.
