The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A greyscale wash drawing of two Prisoners of war working in a tunnel. At Sulmona the artist joined the Escape Team and tunnel-digging crew. Over two months they worked many hours underground, however the plan ended in failure when a donkey put its foot through the roof and the tunnel was discovered. Most Australian officers captured in North Africa ended up in Campo 78 at Sulmona, near Rome.
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
Depicts a drawing of three prisoners removing soil from the tunnel in bags, a fourth is in the roof handing down the bag. At Sulmona the artist joined the Escape Team and tunnel-digging crew. Over t
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 Octob
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.
Officers relaxing at the German prisoner of war camp at Base POW Campo 78 at Sulmona, Italy. Mountain, house and road in background. Comber and other officers were based there from October 1942 to Jun
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
Two prisoners of war digging the escape tunnel from the Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luftwasse III) German prisoner of war camp in Sagan (Sagan bei Breslau), Germany (now part of Poland). The artist an
