Sports 6

Sports 6

Top left: competitor reaches finish tape with other runners behind. In the background crowds of spectators in front of and sitting on roofs of huts. 'Captioned 'C33 Sports Day. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Top right: high jumper clears bar with spectator watching on the right. 'Captioned 'C34 Sports Day. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Left middle: group of runners on track coming towards camera with men watching on on right. In the background crowds of spectators in front of and on the roof of huts. 'Captioned 'C35 Sports Day. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Right middle: thrower has just released discus watched by official on left. In the background crowds of spectators and huts. 'Captioned 'C38 Sports Day. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Bottom left: runners in single file on track with official to the left and spectators in front of and on top of huts to the left. 'Captioned 'C37 Sports Day. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Bottom right: a crowd of prisoners, some wearing parts of RAF uniform and others a mix of peaked and side caps. In the background huts. 'Captioned 'C38 Sports Day. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. On the reverse 'Sports 6'.

1942-08

Six b/w photographs mounted on an album page

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