AWM Collection Record: ART34781.029

AWM image ART34781.029

ID Number: ART34781.029
Title: Roadside rest: the winter march from Sagan
Maker: Comber, A H
Object type: Drawing
Place made: United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London; United Kingdom: England, Shropshire
Date made: January 1945
Physical description: pen and ink, brush and ink on paper
Measurements: 28.9 cm x 39.2 cm
Summary: 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.
Copyright: AWM copyright
Related subject: Buildings; Prisoners of war; Rifles
Related place: Germany
Related conflict: Second World War, 1939-1945

Last-Modified: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:30:41 GMT

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