OFLAG XXIB (PRISONER OF WAR CAMP FOR OFFICERS), POLAND, WINTER. LEFT TO RIGHT: GEOFF WITTSHEAR, ...

Place Europe: Poland, Szubin
Accession Number P00270.023
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Place made Poland: Szubin
Date made 1942-1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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Description

OFLAG XXIB (PRISONER OF WAR CAMP FOR OFFICERS), POLAND, WINTER. LEFT TO RIGHT: GEOFF WITTSHEAR, 402913 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT HENRY “HARRY” ROLAND TRAIN, ARTHUR CRIGHTON AND PADDY BARTHROPP. BOTH HARRY TRAIN AND PADDY BARTHROPP WERE PART OF A GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS REMOVED TO OFLAG XXIB WHILE A NEW CAMP WAS BEING COMPLETED AT THEIR PREVIOUS INTERNMENT CAMP, STALAG LUFT III, ZAGAN, POLAND.