File:"The plight of the refugees was appalling. Something like half a million people - mostly Chinese it seemed - had fled before the advancing Japanese." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle Art.IWMART15746F2.jpg

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Artist
Ronald Searle  (1920–2011)  wikidata:Q500700 q:it:Ronald Searle
 
Ronald Searle
Alternative names
Ronald William Fordham Searle
Description French-British caricaturist, illustrator, screenwriter, comics artist, cartoonist and courtroom sketch artist
Date of birth/death 3 March 1920 Edit this at Wikidata 30 December 2011 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Cambridge Draguignan
Work period 1935 Edit this at Wikidata–2002 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q500700
Description
English: "The plight of the refugees was appalling. Something like half a million people - mostly Chinese it seemed - had fled

before the advancing Japanese." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle
 image: A sketch of three Chinese men; two squatting under a tree, the other standing to the lower right of the

composition.
Date 1942 (Second World War)
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http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//269/media-269571/large.jpg

This photograph Art.IWM ART 15746 F2 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
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(Reusing this file)		 This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.
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  • Associated people and organisations
    British Army
  • Associated places
    MY
  • Associated events
    01/5(595)
  • Associated keywords
    FEPOW, portrait / personification, Refugees
Category
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art
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  1. It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
  2. It was published prior to 1974; or
  3. It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created prior to 1974.

HMSO has declared that the expiry of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide (ref: HMSO Email Reply)
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