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ART34781.025
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Place Europe: Germany
Accession Number ART34781.025
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 26.6 x 36.8 cm; image: 19.4 x 27.2 cm (irreg.)
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, United Kingdom: England, Shropshire
Date made 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

Three men constructing a monument in the British section of the cemetery at the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luftwasse III) in Sagan (Sagan bei Breslau), Germany (now part of Poland). The artist and other officers were held prisoner there from September 1943 to January 1945. The prisoners planned their escape by digging a tunnel, but those who eventually got through tunnel "Dick" and left the prison were shot by the Germans. Altogether they built three tunnels: Tom, Dick and Harry; but all three failed.

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