A group of Allied Prisoners of War (POW) in the doorway of a hut at Stalag XVIIIa working camp ...

Accession Number P09022.007
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Austria
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A group of Allied Prisoners of War (POW) in the doorway of a hut at Stalag XVIIIa working camp A95/GW near Wolfsburg, including NX14129 Private (Pte) Henry James Sparkes, 2/2 Battalion. Part of a series of photographs, letters and related items recording the service of Pte Sparkes who was taken POW in Greece in April 1941, this print was sent home to his wife.