The brutal camp conditions were documented by Searle in a series of drawings that he hid under the mattresses of prisoners dying of cholera. He spent the rest of the war a prisoner, first in Changi Prison and then in the Kwai jungle, working on the Siam-Burma Death Railway. After a month of fighting in Malaya, Singapore fell to the Japanese, and he was taken prisoner along with his cousin Tom Fordham Searle. In January 1942, he was stationed in Singapore. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, currently Anglia Ruskin University, for two years, and in 1941, published the first St Trinian's cartoon in the magazine Lilliput. In April 1939, realizing that war was inevitable, he abandoned his art studies to enlist in the Royal Engineers. He started drawing at the age of five and left school at the age of 15. He is also the co-author (with Geoffrey Willans) of the Molesworth series. Best known as the creator of St Trinian's School (the subject of several books and seven full-length films). Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI, is an influential English artist and cartoonist.
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