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Accession Number | ART34781.001 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 22.8 x 29.8 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | pencil on paper |
Maker |
Comber, Albert |
Place made | United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London, United Kingdom: England, Shropshire |
Date made | 1945 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial![]() |
In the cage at Bari, Italy
Description
A pencil drawing of an Australian pilot meeting an old friend just in from the desert cages. POWs caught in North Africa were often transported to several poorly-equipped camps before being transported from Tripoli to Italy; many of the prisoners were underfed and exhausted by the time that they arrived in camps such as Bari, on the Italian coast.
- Breakfast queue at Bari, Italy
- Morning in the sun, Sulmona, Italy
- Australian officers' compound, Sulmona, Italy
- A game of cards
- Australian officers around the stove at night, Sulmona, Italy
- Basketball, Sulmona
- Working in the tunnel, Sulmona
- Disposing of the earth from the tunnel, Sulmona
- Some played deck quoits while the tunnel progressed in the shadow in the corner
- The Germans took over the camp
- It looked harmless enough until - Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
- The lid was off, and work had begun again
- The tunnel at Stalag Luft III: the foot of the shaft
- Rolling down to the working face: the tunnel, Stalag Luft III
- Extending the tunnel at the working face, Stalag Luft III
- Another tunnel: Stalag Luft III: coming up after the day's work in "Dick"
- At the foot of the shaft of tunnel "Dick", the carpenter's shop
- Flight Lieutenants (Mac) Jones and (Rusty) Kierath, RAAF at work, Stalag Luft III, Germany
- Using tunnel "Dick" as a disposal point for earth and sand from the main tunnel
- The tunnel was to come up in the woods beyond the guard box, Stalag Luft III
- Monument to those 50 officers who were shot
- Shaping the granite for the monument
- The monument in the early stages of construction
- Construction in progress
- The night the Germans gave the dreaded order "Evacuate the camp within the hour"
- The shapeless ghosts leave camp: Stalag Luft III
- The winter march from Stalag Luft III
- Roadside rest: the winter march from Sagan
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