Description
Object description
YMCA Wartime Log containing: photographs of drama productions in prisoner of war camps, lists of rations/food parcels, drawings, and a ms journal describing, partly in diary form, his capture near Tebourba, North Africa on 3 December 1942 while serving as a Lieutenant with 496 Battery, 132nd Field Regiment RA, 78th Division, his imprisonment in Campo 98 (Sicily, until January 1943), Chieti (Italy, January - October 1943), Moosburg (Stalag VIIA, Germany, October - December 1943), Marisch - Trubau (Czechoslovakia, December 1943 - April 1944) and Brunswick (Oflag 79, April 1944 - April 1945). He gives very interesting details of conditions, food and food shortages, pastimes, the effects of imprisonment on attitudes, behaviour, and language, and problems living in close confinement with others, as well as the experience of heavy air raids (interesting for his human sympathy for enemy victims) and seeing forced labourers being maltreated and gives character sketches of fellow prisoners of war, including the cricketer F R ('Freddy') Brown. Many of the 20 photographs of plays in the camp show Bompas dressed in female roles, and there are seven other photographs showing groups in the camp and a camp band.
Content description
YMCA Wartime Log containing: photographs of drama productions in prisoner of war camps, lists of rations/food parcels, drawings, and a ms journal describing, partly in diary form, his capture near Tebourba, North Africa on 3 December 1942 while serving as a Lieutenant with 496 Battery, 132nd Field Regiment RA, 78th Division, his imprisonment in Campo 98 (Sicily, until January 1943), Chieti (Italy, January - October 1943), Moosburg (Stalag VIIA, Germany, October - December 1943), Marisch - Trubau (Czechoslovakia, December 1943 - April 1944) and Brunswick (Oflag 79, April 1944 - April 1945). He gives very interesting details of conditions, food and food shortages, pastimes, the effects of imprisonment on attitudes, behaviour, and language, and problems living in close confinement with others, as well as the experience of heavy air raids (interesting for his human sympathy for enemy victims) and seeing forced labourers being maltreated and gives character sketches of fellow prisoners of war, including the cricketer F R ('Freddy') Brown. Many of the 20 photographs of plays in the camp show Bompas dressed in female roles, and there are seven other photographs showing groups in the camp and a camp band.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1987-01