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  • The Wire The Wire

    (art) Made by: Russell, J A 1945

    image: the tall wire fence of a prisoner-of-war camp. Directly behind the wire fence to the left is a wooden watchtower built on stilts, occupied by a German guard whose head and shoulders are faintly silhouetted against the sky. Another watchtower and...

  • An Escape Tunnel built by Prisoners-of-War An Escape Tunnel built by Prisoners-of-War

    (art) Made by: Feilding, David (The Hon) 1946

    image: A prisoner-of-war, who appears to be naked, sitting within the interior of an underground escape tunnel at work with a small spade. There is a wooden box beside him attached to a thick string, designed to help remove the earth from the tunnel. His...

  • British Prisoners of War, Italy British Prisoners of War, Italy

    (art) Made by: Bullard, Paul 1946

    image: The interior of a prisoner-of-war hut. The space is filled by the receding lines of wooden framed bunk-beds. Men lie and sit on the three-tiered bunks, clothed and unclothed. A seated figure on the central bunk has a red lozenge shape on the...

  • Italian Prisoners-of-war Working on the Land Italian Prisoners-of-war Working on the Land

    (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1942

    image: View across an onion field in autumn with sixteen Italian prisoners-of-war gathering in the crop, supervised by a single British soldier at the near edge of the field. The PoWs are wearing clothing marked with a distinctive red spot on the jackets...

  • Robert Lush, A Prisoner-of-War Robert Lush, A Prisoner-of-War

    (art) Made by: Feilding, David (The Hon) 1945

    image: Head and shoulders portrait of Lush against a background of POW's standing in line and bombed buildings

  • Feeding Liberated Prisoners-of-War before they are Flown Home, Brussels Air Port, 1945 Feeding Liberated Prisoners-of-War before they are Flown Home, Brussels Air Port, 1945

    (art) Made by: Zinkeisen, Doris Clare 1945

    image: The interior of what appears to be an aircraft hangar being used as a canteen with a view out onto an airfield. Within the hangar on the right an assortment of liberated military personnel, formerly prisoners-of-war, sit at circular tables eating...

  • Shower-room: Marlag 'O' Shower-room: Marlag 'O'

    (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1944

    image: a German soldier in overcoat and helmet stands guard in the left foreground. On the right three Prisoners of War, two sitting on a bench, one wresting his leg, are drying and dressing after their shower. Their clothes hang from pegs on the walls...