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Object category

Photographs

Sound

Related period

Second World War

1990 to the present day

Media Format

audio image

Creator

Dowse, Sydney Hastings Hart, Peter M IWM Unknown

Themes

Allies at War 1939-1945 Poland 1939-1945 Polish Armed Forces 1939-1945 Prisoners of War, Europe 1939-1945

Keywords

Escape Execution Prisoners

Licensing

Purchase and License Share and Reuse

Associated Events

Great Escape 1944, Germany, Second World War

Associated People

Bull, Leslie George Bushell, Roger Joyce Król, Stanisław Zygmunt Birkland, Henry "Hank" Brettell, Edward Gordon Casey, Michael James Cassie, Alex Catanach, James "Jimmy" Christensen, Arnold George Churchill, John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Cochran, Dennis Herbert Cross, Ian Kingston Pembroke Day, Harry Melville Arbuthnot Dowse, Sydney Hastings Espelid, Halldor Evans, Brian Herbert Fuglesang, Nils Jørgen German Army, Concentration Camp, Sachenhausen, Germany German Army, POW Camp, Dulag Luft III, Oberusal, Germany German Army, POW Camp, Stalag Luft III, Sagan German Army, POW Camp, Stalag VIII B, Warburg, Germany Gouws, Johannes Grisman, William Jack Gunn, Alastair Donald Mackintosh "Sandy" Hake, Albert Horace Hall, Charles Piers Egerton Hayter, Anthony Ross Henzell Humphreys, Edgar Spottiswoode "Hunk" Hurstpoint School James, Bertram Arthur

Associated Places

Żagań, Lower Silesia, Poland Brest, Finistère, France DE DE & DE & Oberusal <Dulag Luft POW Camp> DE & Oels DE & Sachenhausen <Concentration Camp> DE & Tarmstaedt <Marlag and Milag POW Camp> England, UK France GB, England GB, England & <RAF Station> GB, England & Hurstpoint, Sussex <School> London, England, United Kingdom MY

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MASSEY HERBERT MARTIN (AIR COMMODORE) COLLECTION

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Object Title

THE GREAT ESCAPE, MARCH 1944

HU 1591

Object category

Photographs

Production date

Unknown

Creator

Unknown
Object Title

Dowse, Sydney Hastings (Oral history)

27731

Object category

Sound

Production date

2004-11

Creator

IWM (Production company) Hart, Peter M (Recorder) Dowse, Sydney Hastings (Interviewee/Speaker)

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