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A black and white drawing that depicts several of the Allied POWs held in Stalag Luft III in Sagan, Germany on the night that the order was given to evacuate the camp. The faces of the men are gaunt as they pack whatever belonging they have left.
In January and February 1945, some 80 000 POWs were forced to march across Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia in extreme winter conditions as the Allies closed in on the Nazi forces, to delay the liberation of the prisoners. It was during these death marches that the majority of POW deaths occurred in Europe.
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 black and white drawing of the winter march from Stalag Luft III. For many of the Australian servicemen imprisoned in the Nazi POW camps, it was the most extreme winter they had ever been exposed to
Prisoners of war on the long winter march from the prisoner of war camp at Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luftwasse III) in Sagan (Sagan bei Breslau), Germany (now part of Poland) where they were held fr
Prisoners resting on the long winter march from the prisoner of war camp at Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luftwasse III) in Sagan (Sagan bei Breslau), Germany (now part of Poland) where they were held f
This drawing is a caricature of Flight Lieutenant Leslie John Lawler (service number 419318), a textile operator from Carlton, Victoria who enlisted on the 18th of July 1942 at age 27 and embarked Bri
Collection relating to the Second World War service of O6307 (408173) Flight Lieutenant Ambrose Anthony ‘Bose’ Haley, 93 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, England and Australia, 1942-1945, [dates