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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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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
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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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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