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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

After four years of captivity in prison camps, these three AIF men were at a transit camp in Germany. Left to right: WX10001 Private (Pte) R. T. Sharp of Swanbourne, WA, captured at El Alamein; NX680...

UK2766

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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

After four years of captivity in prisoner of war (POW) camps, these three AIF men were at a transit camp in Germany. Left to right: WX10001 Private (Pte) R. T. Sharp of Swanbourne, WA, captured at El...

UK2779

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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

Allied prisoners of war liberated by units of the 2nd British Army erect tents, wash their clothes and pack their kit during the afternoon before leaving for a transit camp in Belgium. They erected t...

UK2770

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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

An Australian ex-POW, Warrant Officer K. S. Murphy of Rose Bay, NSW, cooks a meal at the camp on a blower fire before travelling to England. The Anzacs made extensive use of blower fires constructed ...

UK2768

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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

Children wave to a truck-load of Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) as the men cross the border into the Netherlands on their way to the transit camp in Belgium, from where they will be flown to Britai...

UK2769

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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (left) talks to two newly liberated Australian prisoners of war, Staff Sergeant J. E. Bryant of Sydney, NSW, who was taken prisoner in Greece, and Corporal J. Hill...

UK2772

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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery talks to Staff Sergeant J. E. Bryant of Sydney, NSW, who was taken prisoner in Greece, and Corporal J. Hill of Sydney, NSW, taken prisoner in Crete. The two Austr...

UK2758

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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

Four ex-POWs poring over a map of Germany by candlelight and studying the route they will take through Germany and back to Britain. Left to right: 1089363 Flight Sergeant (F Sgt) Eddie S. Jones of Li...

UK2760

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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

Freed Allied ex-prisoners of war (POWs) have a hurried last meal at the camp before going to a transit camp in Belgium. The Anzacs cooked their last meal in the camps on blower fires constructed from...

UK2767

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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

Oerbke. An informal group portrait of RAAF and New Zealand airmen, all newly liberated prisoners of war (POWs), at Stalag 357 on the evening before they left the camp. Note the barbed wire in the ba...

UK2771

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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

Oerbke. Group portrait of Australian and New Zealand airmen inside one of the prison huts at Stalag 357 prisoner of war (POW) camp. Stalags 357 and XIb (at nearby Fallingbostel), when liberated by u...

UK2773

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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

Oerbke. Inspecting prisoner of war (POW) camp Stalag 357 shortly after its liberation by units of the 2nd British Army, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery talks to RAAF POW 417152 Warrant Officer R...

UK2759

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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

On their last morning at the prison camp, New Zealand Army men wait for the truck which will take them to the transit camp in Belgium. Stalags 357 (in Oerbke) and XIb (in Fallingbostel), when liberat...

UK2778

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Maker: Stewart, Alexander

The last night in the prisoner of war (POW) camp for four airmen, who sit on one of the two-tier bunks and discuss their return to Britain, leave, and other things connected with their release. Stala...

UK2765