""First, at Changi, we lay on the ground where we fell. Later we were allotted accommodation in India Lines - sixty men to each ex-Punjabi wooden hut thatched with palm fronds...Next we stole anything as yet unstolen, with which to concoct a bed and arrange a personal nook of our own..." from 'To the Kwai - and Back" by Ronald Searle" image: The interior of a hut showing beds made of planks, a stretcher and a string mattress. Shelves containing personal effects line the walls and clothes lines hang with washing. A jerry can holding water lies under a bed.