Using tunnel "Dick" as a disposal point for earth and sand from the main tunnel

In the cage at Bari, Italy

ART34781.020
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Place Europe: Germany
Accession Number ART34781.020
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 28.6 cm x 39.4 cm; Image: 21 x 31.2 cm [irregular]
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and brush and ink, 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

Australian prisoners of war using tunnel "Dick" for disposing earth and sand dug from the main tunnel at Stalag Luft III in Sagan Germany. Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luftwasse III) was a German prisoner of war camp in Sagan (Sagan bei Breslau), Germany (now part of Poland) where Comber and other officers were held from September 1943 to January 1945. The prisoners planned their escape by digging the tunnel, but those who eventually got through and left the prison were shot by the Germans.

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