Lost artworks by a British soldier have revealed the lighter side of life in a notoriously grim Japanese Prisoner of War camp. Lance bombardier Des Bettany, from Burnley, Lancashire, was trapped at Changi Prison in Singapore for three years, where he painted comrades working, bickering and singing in the bath to keep up morale. He  fashioned a paintbrush out of human hair and bamboo cane, used coloured soil mixed with rice water for paint and scraps of toilet paper were turned into a canvas. But he hid his experiences from his family and they only discovered them after he died, when his son Keith unearthed dozens of paintings hidden in a wardrobe.
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Lance bombardier Des Bettany from Burnley, Lancashire, spent three years in grim prison where more than 800 died
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He fashioned a paintbrush out of human hair, used soil mixed with rice water for paint and toilet paper as canvas
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He kept experiences secret from his son Keith - who discovered dozens of paintings in his wardrobe after he died
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Now 62, Keith appealed to former PoWs to retrieve their tongue-in-cheek artworks and now has more than 50
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They depict Changi jail in Singapore, where comrades' smelly feet drew mosquitoes and Captain sang in the bath
His political cartoons of the @placeholder were seized and he gave away complete sketch books as well as single paintings.