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Tunnelling
Photo 1 is a view into a tunnel.
Photo 2 is a section of floorboards removed to show the tunnel entrance.
Photo 3 is a view along the tunnel.
Photo 4 and 5 are the potato wine pot, captioned 'Potato wine being made, subsequently banned as it was…
Photo 2 is a section of floorboards removed to show the tunnel entrance.
Photo 3 is a view along the tunnel.
Photo 4 and 5 are the potato wine pot, captioned 'Potato wine being made, subsequently banned as it was…
Gallantry in Captivity
Article headlines: gallantry in captivity, awards to airmen, many lives saved in Germany. OBEs for Group Captain Laurence F Wray RCAF shot down March 1944 for work done on evacuation of Stalag Luft 3. Wing Commander (acting Group Captain) Henry…
Jim Tyrie
A biography of Jim Tyrie. He was called up on 1st September 1939 and learned to fly on Tiger Moths. He was shot down on his 7th operation over Berlin. In POW camp he was described as a dedicated tunneller. There is a list of the camps he was kept in…
Britain demands facts of prison shootings
Britain has demanded through the protecting power a full and immediate report on the shooting after a mass escape of 47 British, Dominion and allied air officers in prison camp Stalag Luft 3. 76 officers escaped on March 22. 15 had been recaptured…
Names of 47 officers shot after escape from Stalag Luft 3
Accounts of some of the officers shot: Flt Lt J G Stower, Flt Lt J F Williams, Flt Lt E G Brettell, Flt Lt M J Casey Flt Lt D. O Street. List of 47 Officers shot. Photograph of W.O Bristow and his model steam boat captioned 'An RAF sergeant at Stalag…
Wrzesień 1939 - ewakuacja z Torunia
Photo 1 is a group of people round the back of a car, annotated:
We got stuck in the sand near Garwolin.
Photo 2 is five people with a caption with their names 'Maciek Miszewski, Jerzy Rajewski, Jan Rabek NN.
Photo 3 is the same group as photo 2…
We got stuck in the sand near Garwolin.
Photo 2 is five people with a caption with their names 'Maciek Miszewski, Jerzy Rajewski, Jan Rabek NN.
Photo 3 is the same group as photo 2…
Scenes and people - Stalag Luft 1 and Dulag Luft
Top left - a guard tower taken through barbed wire. Captioned 'F36 Dulag Luft'.
Top middle - a wooden guard tower with telegraph wires and fence to the right and church in the background on the left. Captioned 'F29 Stalag Luft 1'.
Top right - a…
Top middle - a wooden guard tower with telegraph wires and fence to the right and church in the background on the left. Captioned 'F29 Stalag Luft 1'.
Top right - a…
The handbook of modern irregular warfare - pamphlet No 1
Warning prisoners of war the dangers of escaping - 'it is no longer a sport'.
Rescued from Vichy's grasp
Account of Douglas Hudson's safe arrival home after two years internment in French North Africa. Notes squalid conditions in camps and two escape attempts.
Two years in Prison Camp - airman's ordeal in Tunisia
Sergeant observer J Douglas Hudson resting at home after being released from spending two years in French North African internment camps. Freed after British and American troop landings in November. Tells of force landing in Tunisia, internment in Le…
Laghouat (Alger) - Caserne Margeritte
View from a hill of a military camp surrounded by a wall. Camp contains many single story buildings with arched promenades. In the background mountains. On the reverse 'Our prison camp occupied part of this caserne and was "barbed wired off"…
Jack Warner escape pack photographs
Three full face portraits, left side, head on and right side. All submitted with caption; “Three of him from his "escape pack" for use if he needed documents forging, should he be shot down”. Additional information about this item was kindly…
Escape compass
Brass escape compass with crazed glass
Escape compass
Small compass with needle and cardinal headings. Note 'Compass from RAF Escape/Survival kit'.
Wallet with escape and evasion Warning document inside
Brown card wallet/photo holder with folded document IS9 inside, outside of wallet with impressed wording and close up of wording '[...] Promenade, Blackpool'.
List of Phrases
List of phrases in English, German, French, Dutch and Spanish. Along the top are four head profiles.
F30 Would Be Escapees Recaptured. Stalag Luft 1. 4
Four men, three carrying milk churns. behind is a hut.
B54 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
A wreath from the Luftwaffe on the grave of Sergeant J C Shaw. It contains the words 'Die Deutsche Luftwaffe'.
B53 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
A group of airmen at the internment of Sergeant J C Shaw. Two, on the left are saluting. Other airmen are holding wreaths for the grave. Light snow on the ground and trees bare of leaves in the background.
B52 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
Four airmen stand at the grave of Sergeant J C Shaw. On the right German soldiers fire their rifles in salute.
B51 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
A German officer and two airmen in greatcoats saluting at the internment of Sergeant J C Shaw. Other airmen are holding wreaths to be laid on the grave. In the background the graveyard is lightly covered in snow, with the trees bare of leaves.
B50 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
The grave of Sergeant J C Shaw covered in wreaths. In the background are more graves and bare trees.
B49 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
The coffin of Sergeant J C Shaw is laid to rest by his fellow airmen. A group of German soldiers with rifles stands guard. The trees are bare of leaves.
B48 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
A German officer leads the hearse containing the body of Sergeant J C Shaw. Behind the hearse are rows of British airmen wearing greatcoats. In the background is the graveyard and trees.
B47 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
Group of airmen in greatcoats standing to attention at the funeral of Sergeant J C Shaw. They are arranged in three rows. Behind are woods and the graveyard.