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Carved wooden shield for Empire Aquatic Sports held at Hohenfels, Bavaria : Staff Sergeant E T W Kidd
Heraldry
Maker: Pickard, A J
Wooden shield with carved detailing. Ornamental curls around the edges imitate curled parchment. On the left shoulder is 'AGGREGATE' and on the right one is 'SHIELD'. At the centre top is a circle wit...REL26056
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Crocheted blanket : Lance Corporal A V Cooke, Stalag 8B
Heraldry
Maker: Cooke, Austin Vaughan
Narrow woollen blanket or rug, crocheted in scallops of three stitches, in shades of grey, green, khaki, brown and blue. Each end is bordered with a series of ten bands or stripes in the colours, from...REL/05036
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Engraved mess tins : Sapper Vane Patrick Sheldon 'Pat' Williams, 2/8 Field Company
Heraldry
Maker: C & B Ltd
Pair of nested rectangular mess tins each with a hinged, one piece metal handle, designed to fold over the top of the tin for compact storage. Both have stamped makers markings on one end of each tin,...RELAWM31283
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Ghosts around the camp fire
Art
Maker: Comber, Albert
Depicts a group of Allied prisoners of war gathered around the stove in a hut, some sitting on boxes and beds warming themselves around a pot belly stove. Many Australians had never before experienced...ART35260
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Harry Smith, prisoner of war
Art
Maker: O'Brien, Justin
Portrait of Harry Smith, prisoner of war at the camp in Torun, Poland. In a review of the painting displayed at the Macquarie Galleries in Sydney, appearing in the Daily Telegraph (2 March 1944, p. 9)...ART91797
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Painted POW handkerchief : Private R D Clark, 2/4 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Clark, Ronald Denham
A man's white handkerchief with a blue and green checked border (probably Red Cross parcel issue). In the centre of the handkerchief, in coloured dyes and inks, have been added two crossed Australian...REL23783
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Prisoner of war handmade escape compass : Lieutenant A L Walker, 2/1 Australian Machine Gun Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Walker, Archibald Larnach
Small handmade escape compass in a wooden container. The container originally contained Swedish Soletter Astra saccharine tablets from a Red Cross parcel. The free moving cardboard dial is marked with...REL/18630
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Red Cross food parcel carton : Private R Glanville, 2/7 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Original cardboard carton containing a standard Red Cross food parcel as issued to Allied prisoners of war in Europe. Marked on top of lid with a red cross and 'KRIEGSGEFANGENENPOST PRISONER'S PARCEL...REL/18421
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Set of upper dentures : Lance Corporal A Lewis, 2/5 Australian General Hospital
Heraldry
Maker: Lewis, Alfred
Pair of dentures cast from silver foil melted down to extract the metal content. Standard upper dentures with moulded gums, teeth and palate which have replaced the missing teeth of the maxillary arch...REL/09653
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Short wave radio receiver with headphones : Private R Glanville, 2/7 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Glanville, Reginald Lawrence Neufeldt & Kuhnke, Kiel
Short wave radio receiver housed in a wooden opened backed case with a mock bakelite front and control knob. The reciver is complete with its original German headphones. They are impressed on the earp...REL/18422
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Strange Moonlit Ghosts
Art
Maker: Comber, Albert
After being shot down in August 1942 over the Gulf of Taranto, Italy, Flight Lieutenant Albert Henry Comber was taken prisoner, eventually an intern of Stalag Luft III. The camp was evacuated in Janua...ART35261