Stanley Warren
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Stanley Warren (1917-1992), art teacher in the RAF, taken prisoner by the Japanese in World War 2. Known for the murals he painted at a chapel at Changi prison while a Prisoner of War.
The five paintings at the chapel depicted the Nativity, the Ascension, Crucifixion, Last Supper and Saint Luke in prison.
His official rank was Bombardier Stanley Warren, of 15 Field Regiment, Royal Regiment of Artillery. He was an artist before the war.
The murals were discovered in 1958 and a search was made to find the artist. Warren, who by that time was an art teacher at the Sir William Collins School in London, had thought that the murals had been destroyed, but was shown a photograph of one of his murals in the Daily Mirror by a colleague at school. He was brought out to Singapore and restored the murals on several trips.
