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• oil painting, view of Boughton POW Camp, Easter 1946

  (souvenirs and ephemera) Made by: Theo Fries (Artist) 1946

  Oil painting by Theo Fries, a German prisoner of war held at Boughton Camp (Camp No 633), near Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, completed between 1945 and 1946. The painting was acquired by Company Quartermaster Sergeant Guy William Reckin (Royal Artillery),...

• 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

  (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

  (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

  (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

  (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

  (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...

• The Contents of a Red Cross Parcel, 1944

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1944

  image: an open cardboard box with a red cross marked on it is positioned on a wooden stool. Some of the contents of the box, including a tin of Klim powdered milk, cartons of Players cigarettes, a tin of Maple Leaf Butter and a chocolate bar, are placed...

• 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...

• Naval and Marine Prisoners of War on the March ahead of the Allied Advance in Germany between Bremen and Lubeck, 1945

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1945

  image: a muddy track in the countryside crowded with Allied soldiers and German guards. In the foreground a guard with a dog on a lead walks along the verge of the track. To his right are men in different naval and khaki uniforms. They all carry...