The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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.
Probably SULMONA, ITALY. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT A.H. (HENRY) COMBER RAAF (AN AUSTRALIAN ATTACHED TO 39 SQUADRON, RAF) AT WORK ON HIS PAINTING 'ITALIAN SPRING'. AN ARTIST BEFORE THE WAR, HE PAINTED THIS W
SAGAN. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT A.H. (HENRY) COMBER RAAF (AN AUSTRALIAN ATTACHED TO 39 SQUADRON RAF) (RIGHT) AND FLIGHT LIEUTENANT JOHN RUSSELL (RAF) (LEFT) WITH A PAINTING IN OILS OF RUSSELL BY COMBER. BO
SAGAN. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT A.H. (HENRY) COMBER RAAF (AN AUSTRALIAN ATTACHED TO 39 SQUADRON RAF) (RIGHT), FLYING OFFICER KENYON DFC, (CENTRE) AND FLYING OFFICER R.B. BUCKHAM (BOTH OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN
SAGAN. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT A.H. (HENRY) COMBER, RAAF (AN AUSTRALIAN ATTACHED TO 39 SQUADRON RAF) (LEFT), FLYING OFFICER KENYON DFC, (CENTRE) AND FLYING OFFICER R.B. BUCKHAM (BOTH OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN
SAGAN. A SCENE FROM A PRISONER OF WAR (POW) PRODUCTION OF THE PLAY "ARSENIC AND OLD LACE" AT STALAG LUFT III IN POLAND. THE ELABORATE STAGE SETTING WAS DESIGNED BY FLIGHT LIEUTENANT A.H. (HENRY) COM
402730 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Albert Henry Comber rests (left) while 402379 Flt Lt Colin George Milson (right) prepares to polish his boots somewhere in the Western Desert. Flt Lt Comber enlisted
A drawing of Allied POWs in the breakfast queue at the transit camp in Bari, on the Italian coast. A guard looks on as the bedraggled men await their daily rations.
Prisoners relaxing and reading in the morning sun at the German prisoner of war camp ar Base POW Campo 78 at Sulmona, Italy. Comber and other officers were based there from October 1942 to June 1943.
Portrait of VX14985 William Illingworth Taylor, staff artist with AIF News, working on a pencil sketch. He is in a seated position with his paper on his lap and his artists materials spread about him.
A drawing of several men at Campo PG 78, a POW camp in Sulmona, Italy. While some of the men entertain themselves with ball games, they are distracting attention away from the shadowy corner where mor
Depicts a drawing of a single man in a bare, solitary prison cell. Bereft, he sits leaning against one of the walls with his head bowed. Internment at Long Bay assembled a mix of Italians from various
Depicts a scene in a trench in an unspecified battle ground in Europe. Indian gentleman, Chunder Loo, is wearing either a Sikh turban called a dastaar, or a Hindu turban. Often Chunder is depicted b