Australian officers around the stove at night, Sulmona, Italy Accession Number: ART34781.005

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Interior of hut, German prisoner of war camp at Base POW Campo 78 at Sulmona, Italy. Prisoners seated on boxes around large heating stove. Comber and other officers were held prisoner there from October 1942 to June 1943. At Sulmona Comber joined the Escape Team and tunnel-digging crew. Over two months they worked many hours underground, however the plan ended in failure. Most Australian officers captured in North Africa ended up in Campo 78 at Sulmona, near Rome.

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Accession Number
ART34781.005
Artist
Flight Lieutenant Albert Comber
Artist
alpha lithograph
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: pen and ink, brush and ink wash on paper
Measurement
Overall
Medium
pen and ink, brush and ink wash on paper
Date Made
1945
Place Made
Whole/Part
Child
Item Count
1
Credit Line
presented by the artist 1945
Copyright
AWM copyright

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