The Jeath Museum has a series of paintings by Leo Rawlings. Leo Rawlings was captured at the fall of Singapore, spending three and a half years as a
prisoner of the Japanese, during which time he was put to work on the notorious railway. While a prisoner, he made over a hundred eye-witness paintings
of the conditions under which the prisoners lived, producing them under the most difficult conditions with Chinese Indian ink, paints, crushed sandstone,
clays and vegetable juices.

Several of his paintings are in the
Singapore Art Museum.

He also wrote his memoirs,
'And the Dawn came up like Thunder'
which had to be published by setting up his own company. It was never successful in his lifetime. He died in 1990.