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Philip Meninsky
Philip Meninsky (born 1919 in Fulham, England, died in 2007) was the son of Bernard Meninsky. Despite an early passion for art, at his father's wish, he initially trained as an accountant, before being called up for National Service.
After a first posting to Scotland, he was then sent to the Far East where he was captured in 1942 after the fall of Singapore.
He spent the next three years working on the Death Railway where he recorded the lives of POWs by
been done in three minutes.
World War II drawings and paintings Contemporaries.
Old was a contemporary of fellow FEPOW artists Jack Bridger Chalker, Philip Meninsky and Ronald Searle, all of whom risked their lives on a daily basis to make these historic records.
Old and Meninsky were reunited in 1995 after 50 years as guests of the Imperial War Museum for an exhibition "Victory in the Far East" – held 15 August to 15 December 1995.
Later works.
Until his death in 2001 the artist remained both