ring, prisoner of war

A silver aluminium finger ring made from crashed aircraft materials, the ring is circular and the front is inlaid with pieces of yellow perspex plastic and a small photograph of the donor as a young girl.

One of two rings made by Italian prisoners of war from pieces of crashed aircraft during the Second World War. The donor's uncles worked on farms in Suffolk and were assisted by the prisoners who would be picked up from their camp in Cheveley Park near Newmarket in the morning and taken by lorry to the local farms and then returned to camp in the evening. The donor was a young girl at the time but remembers collecting the prisoners of war in her uncle's lorry and they would stand in the back with a guard dressed in a dark brown uniform. The ring is one of two rings given to the donor's uncle Alf by one of the prisoners of war and it is inlaid with a picture of the donor as a young girl.