ART34781.029 - Roadside rest: the winter march from Sagan
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial
- ID number
- ART34781.029
- Title
- Roadside rest: the winter march from Sagan
- Artist
- Comber, Albert
- Object type
- Drawing
- Places made
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- United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London;
- United Kingdom: England, Shropshire;
- Date made
- January 1945
- Medium
- pen and ink, brush and ink wash, pencil on paper
- Measurement
- sheet: 28.9 x 39.2 cm; image: 20 x 32 cm (irreg.)
- Collection
- Art
- Description
- 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 from September 1943 to January 1945, to a crowded prisoner of war camp at Tarmstedt bei Bremen. A German soldier stands guard with rifle at the ready.
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