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Far Eastern Heroes
The Changi Sketch Book
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Sergeant
Jan Willem Coppenrath
Jan was a gifted artist in the Netherlands Army, he was captured when Java fell to the Japanese on the 8th March 1942.
On 9th February 1943, Jan was transported to Singapore in the Roko Maru with 1000 PoW’s making up Java Party 13. He then started his ‘Changi Sketch Book’ till he was released in September 1945.
As Jan was a pharmacist he worked closely with medical staff and was under Major William John Elliott Phillips. Major Phillips was Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services in the Royal Army Medical Corps, at Tanbaya on the Thailand-Burma Railway, which was an ‘F’ Force Hospital, then later at Adam Park and Changi Prison.
Jan’s Sketch Book illustrates in great detail his life as a PoW.
The Changi Sketch Book
by
Jan Willem Coppenrath
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My thanks to Peter Coppenrath for supplying and giving me the permission to add his father’s ‘Changi Sketch Book’ to the Far Eastern Heroes.
These images hold Peter Coppenrath’s Copyright
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