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Birthday postcard to Richard from Todd Hawkins
Colour drawing of Pinocchio and birthday greetings.
Caricatures of fellow prisoners
Title 'Place xxx on red and clamp'.
Head portraits of 29 men as well as other figures. Most have individual speech bubble quotes.
Head portraits of 29 men as well as other figures. Most have individual speech bubble quotes.
Dragon and newspaper cutting
Multi-coloured stylized dragon on a blue background. Newspaper cutting about Wembley football team's tour of Brittany and other matches.
Air gunner and Auxiliary Territorial Service woman
On the left a uniformed sergeant airman with gas mask case simulating firing guns. On the right sitting on the same log a woman in khaki uniform looking away bored. Captioned 'I gave him one burst .... of course .. no need for another and......'
Airman and woman
An airman wearing tunic with observers brevet, and side cap walking with his arm around a woman wearing Jodhpurs holding a riding crop. Captioned '..not a cloud in the sky - but we went in anyway...'
The 'woman in jodhpurs' is meant to be in the…
The 'woman in jodhpurs' is meant to be in the…
Four drawings of gremlins
Top left gremlin of wind.
Top right - a gremlin dancing and pointing.
Bottom left - gremlin hacking hole in aircraft wing with an axe.
Bottom right sweating gremlin looking at crashed aircraft.
Top right - a gremlin dancing and pointing.
Bottom left - gremlin hacking hole in aircraft wing with an axe.
Bottom right sweating gremlin looking at crashed aircraft.
Three drawings of gremlins
Left - a gremlin about to bang nail into a tire. Captioned 'Gremlin MK1 type Bunyip'.
Middle - an angry gremlin.
Right - semi naked female gremlin with forked tail and high heel shoes.
Middle - an angry gremlin.
Right - semi naked female gremlin with forked tail and high heel shoes.
Two seat aircraft under fire
View of cockpit of two-seat, single-engine fighter with bemused gunner being attacked by twin engine German aircraft, whose bullets bounce off pilot's head.
Four drawings of baseball players
On the front page left - a player kneeling and struck in the face by ball with caption 'Stee-e-rike!!'. On the right a player with ball slipped through his hands.
On the reverse left - a player being hit by ball on the back of his head. On the right…
On the reverse left - a player being hit by ball on the back of his head. On the right…
Don't look now but I think we're being followed
View of cockpit of bi-plane with pilot looking apprehensive and gunner pointing backward. The silhouettes of six enemy aircraft are behind them.
Caricatures of German leaders and other
Titled 'AH WELL! DEPARTMENT'.
Top left, caricature top left of Hermann Göring;
Top right A POW 'lineshooter' captioned 'Of course I’m getting … all of this myself';
Bottom right Adolph Hitler captioned 'This is my last territorial claim in…
Top left, caricature top left of Hermann Göring;
Top right A POW 'lineshooter' captioned 'Of course I’m getting … all of this myself';
Bottom right Adolph Hitler captioned 'This is my last territorial claim in…
Two baseball players
On the left a figure running with ball in hand or winding up to pitch.
On the right a player with face in the ground having dived to catch ball.
On the right a player with face in the ground having dived to catch ball.
Ice hockey goalie
An ice-hockey goalie with aims resting on goal crossbar wearing Wembley vest. Captioned Roy Musgrove.
Two colour drawings - Two airmen, and a German guard and tunneller
On the left a drawing of two airmen,. One standing with mug shouting at another sitting at a table on which is a mug.
Top right - a German guard wearing greatcoat and helmet with slung rifle, walking in rain away from fence while underneath him is…
Top right - a German guard wearing greatcoat and helmet with slung rifle, walking in rain away from fence while underneath him is…
Three airmen and other sketches
Two airmen wearing uniform tunics arguing in a room while a third flies up towards the ceiling. On the right sketches of faces.
Two drawings
Left side - a Dornier aircraft in a dive with airbrakes out and crew with cockpit ejected from the front.
Right a prisoner carrying many pots and pans walking towards a building with smoke issuing and worried man sticking his head out the door.
Right a prisoner carrying many pots and pans walking towards a building with smoke issuing and worried man sticking his head out the door.
Escaping prisoner
A prisoner emerging from tunnel under camp wire fence, illuminated by German guard with torch. Captioned 'Nocturne'.
Donald Duck pilot
Donal Dick piloting a single-engine fighter with tail shot off and bullets flying past.
Policeman, airman and woman
On the left a policeman with his eye on a sergeant airman wearing tunic with observer brevet sitting on a folding chair. On the right a woman sitting on a similar chair with her back to the airman.
Sleeping prisoner
A man sleeping in bed covered by blanket.
Folder
Folder with drawings. Label text 'The drawings of 'Todd' W/O GCG Hawkins RAF, drawn whilst a prisoner of war in Germany during World War 2 1939-1946. Brought back from Germany by his friends to his wife Jessie, who handed them for safe keeping, to…
Red Cross parcel label
Label made out to Sgt/Observer Gordon C G Hawkins, British P.O.W. 131, Stalag Luft VI Germany.
Who won?
Two players coming off a football pitch (see goalposts in background). The words ‘Who won’, shown on the upper right, are meant for the speech balloon of the figure on the extreme left.
Below are the draft titles for other cartoons: ‘2 Women -…
Below are the draft titles for other cartoons: ‘2 Women -…
Two prisoners by table
Two prisoners, one in uniform tunic seated holding a sample of something and scratching his head. The other is standing and removing portions of something on the table with an implement.
Two prisoners of war
Two prisoners carrying a heavy object.