Group portrait of Allied soldiers, a number of whom are holding musical instruments, inside ...

Accession Number P05382.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Gardiner, George Guyatt
Place made Germany
Date made c 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of Allied soldiers, a number of whom are holding musical instruments, inside Holzminden prisoner of war (POW) camp. On 24 July 1918, 29 prisoners escaped through a tunnel that they had dug; 19 were re-captured.

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