At the foot of the shaft of tunnel "Dick", the carpenter's shop

In the cage at Bari, Italy

ART34781.018
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Place Europe: United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London
Accession Number ART34781.018
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 20.3 x 26.6 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and ink, brush and ink wash, pencil on paper
Maker Comber, Albert
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made January 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Two Australian prisoners of war working in the carpentry shop at the foot of the shaft of tunnel 'Dick', at Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luftwasse III) German prisoner of war camp in Sagan (Sagan bei Breslau), Germany (now part of Poland). The artist and other officers were held at this camp from September 1943 to January 1945. The prisoners planned their escape by digging tunnels, but of those who eventually got through and escaped about 50 were shot by the Gestapo after recapture.

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