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Theatre 1
Top left: Group of actors some in drag on stage. Captioned 'D1 New Theatre. Stalag Luft 3. 42'. Top right: 14 man band with conductor on stage. Captioned 'D2 New Theatre. Stalag Luft 3. 42'. Left second row: 14 man band with conductor on stage.…
Sports 7
Top left: group of men sitting and standing round a table with a hut in the background. 'Captioned 'C39 Sports Day. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Top right: group of men playing basketball. In the background huts. 'Captioned 'C40 Sports Day. Stalag Luft…
Tags: prisoner of war; sport; Stalag Luft 3
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…
Tags: prisoner of war; sport; Stalag Luft 3
Sports 5
Top left: crowd of spectators sitting on a mound with some standing. In the background huts and trees. 'Captioned 'C26 Sports Day. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Top right: a high jumper approaching the bar. In the background other competitors sitting on…
Tags: prisoner of war; sport; Stalag Luft 3
Sports 4
Top left: runner about to breast finish tape in the centre and behind him a fallen runner with others further back. On the left and behind, spectators in front of an on top of huts. 'Captioned 'C20 Sports Day. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Top right: on…
Tags: prisoner of war; sport; Stalag Luft 3
Sports 2
Top left: four competitors running towards camera. To the left spectators and huts, to the right three men watch runners. 'Captioned 'C7 Sports Day. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Top right: competitors in line along a wire delineating running track. Three…
Tags: prisoner of war; sport; Stalag Luft 3
Sports 3
Top left: three men sitting behind a table with two others standing. Score boards to left and right. Captioned 'C14 Sports Day. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Top right: a man wearing white vest and singlet running and braking finish tape. To the left…
Tags: prisoner of war; sport; Stalag Luft 3
Sports 1
Top left: two teams of five men sitting on the ground centre and right with two further men sitting to left. In the background crowds of spectators and huts. Captioned 'C1 Sports Day. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Top right: four men wearing shorts and…
Tags: prisoner of war; sport; Stalag Luft 3
Arts and Crafts 3
Top left: Two posters; titled 'Keep your mind occupied' and ' Speed Sport'. Two paintings, one landscape and one of men decorating a room' all pinned on a wall. Top right: a model Lysander and a four wheeled carriage on the ground.. Captioned 'A 17…
Arts and Crafts 2
Top left: model sailing boat on a stand on table. Captioned 'A 11 NCO's Arts and Crafts Exhib. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Top right: model monoplane with matchbox alongside resting on a table. Captioned 'A 8 NCO's Arts and Crafts Exhib. Stalag Luft 3.…
Art and crafts 1
Top left: model sailing boat on table. Captioned 'A1 NCO's Arts and Crafts Exhib. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Top right: Two men leaning over a table covered with models with two men standing behind them, In the background, two further men looking at…
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Writes telling him she went to the West End to have her hair cut and she tells him of the shopping she bought for their home. She talks of a meeting, organised by the Red Cross for the next – of - kin of prisoners of war. Plus other news from home…