Ashley George Old

Visual Artist

1913 –

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Who is Ashley George Old?

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.

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.

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1913

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on July 23, 2013

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