Prisoners of War
List of Illustrations
page xviii
List of Illustrations
Frontispiece | |
United States troops arriving at the gates of Oflag 79 at Brunswick on 12 April 1945 | I. McD. Matheson |
Following page 126 | |
The guard tower of Stalag 383 | R. H. Blanchard |
Prisoners from Greece and Crete leaving Kokkinia Hospital for Germany, 1941 | A. J. Spence |
British prisoners of war marching back from Sfakia to Galatas, Crete | from a German publication |
‘Shellfire Wadi’, near Sidi Rezegh | P. Curtis collection |
The compound at Bardia, 1941 | British Official |
After three months in the main transit camp at Benghazi, 1942 | H. R. Dixon |
Delousing in Campo PG 57, Gruppignano | M. Lee Hill |
Lined up for rations, Campo PG 57, 1942 | W. A. Weakley |
Blowers heating up a meal, Stalag IIIA, Luckenwalde | J. H. Wilkinson collection |
Play acting in Campo PG 52, Chiavari, 1942 | |
Inside an Italian working camp on the Austrian border—from a sketch by A. G. Douglas | |
Campo PG 57, Gruppignano, in April 1943—from a sketch by A. G. Douglas | |
Ready for evacuation from Italy to Germany, September 1943 | M. Lee Hill |
To Germany in a cattle truck | M. Lee Hill |
Mess queue for British civilian internees in Ilag VIII, Tost, Germany | International Red Cross |
Working party, Stalag XXA, Thorn, Poland, 1941 | International Red Cross Following page 142 |
Interrogation camp—Dulag Luft, Oberursel | J. M. Garrett collection |
Living quarters for a working camp in Germany—from a sketch by A. G. Douglas | |
A village in the Sudetenland | E. C. Cottrell collectionpage xix |
Following page 142 | |
‘Barbed-wire fever’—a cartoon by J. Welch | |
Between the barracks of Stalag VIIIA at Görlitz | F. Crandle collection |
A barrack interior at Stalag VIIIA | F. Crandle collection |
Christmas Eve 1943 inside the perimeter wire, Stalag 383, Bavaria | R. H. Blanchard |
Half of Stalag 383 from the sentry box on the north side | R. H. Blanchard |
Stalag 383—Winter in Germany, 1943–44 | R. H. Blanchard |
Stalag 383—The restlessness of spring | R. H. Blanchard |
Stalag 383—Mud after the thaw | R. H. Blanchard |
Stalag 383—Hut interior at night | R. H. Blanchard |
Stalag 383—‘At the tables’ | A. H. Kyle collection |
Stalag 357 at Fallingbostel—Ablution stand for a group of over 1000 men | J. M. Garrett collection |
Stalag 357—Dividing up swede peelings from the German mess | J. M. Garrett collection |
Stalag XVIIIA at Wolfsberg, Austria—An Anzac Day parade in 1943 | J. Ledgerwood collection |
Stalag XVIIIA—The shoemakers' shop | J. Ledgerwood collection |
Shakespeare played at Oflag VIIB, at Eichstaett | G. R. Cowie collection |
Oflag VIIB—Another play | G. R. Cowie collection |
The handicrafts section of an arts and crafts exhibition at Stalag 383 | R. H. Blanchard Following page 322 |
Manacles used by the Germans on Allied prisoners of war as a reprisal for British action in tying the hands of German prisoners taken in the Dieppe raid | |
Hut interior at Stalag 383 | A. J. Spence |
Lunch from Red Cross parcels | R. H. Blanchard |
A hut scene after transfer from Italy to Germany, drawn by A. G. Douglas during captivity | |
A cartoon on escaping, drawn by J. Welch | |
The punishment fortress of Campo PG 5, Gavi, Italy | C. N. Armstrong collection |
Brigadier James Hargest in his disguise as a French railwayman | permission Michael Joseph Ltd |
Passo Moro, over which some of the escapers from Italian camps crossed into Switzerland | P. W. Bates collectionpage xx |
Following page 322 | |
A Swiss frontier post | D. J. Gibbs collection |
Escaped prisoners' footwear after reaching Switzerland | P. W. Bates collection |
Men from Stalag 383 at Etehausen during the forced march south | R. H. Blanchard |
A rest during a forced march | M. Lee Hill |
Liberated prisoners waiting to be flown from Landshut airstrip to the United Kingdom | R. H. Blanchard collection |
C. B. Burdekin, OBE, head of the prisoner-of-war welfare section of New Zealand House, London | |
Prisoners of war repatriated from Italy in May 1942 reading mail at Maadi | NZ Army, M. D. Elias |
At Cracow, in Poland, before being transported by the Russians to Odessa | W. A. Weakley |
Reception at 2 NZEF (UK) Reception Group, a cartoon by J. Welch | |
Outside the sergeants' mess at the Reception Group Wing at Folkestone | R. H. Blanchard |
Following page 338 | |
On the Andes on the voyage home | R. H. Blanchard |
Home again | NZ Army, F. A. Marriott |
A Japanese press officer at Shanghai Internment Camp | from a Japanese propaganda paper |
The Argyll Street Camp, Hong Kong | International Red Cross |
Selarang Barracks, Singapore, crowded by the Japanese with 17,000 prisoners of war because they had refused to sign pledges not to escape | Australian War Memorial |
Four scenes in Selarang Barracks | A. H. Harding collection |
Changi Jail, Singapore | Australian War Memorial |
Women's quarters inside the crypt of Changi Jail—painted by Gladys Tompkins during captivity | |
Prisoners of war working on a hillside in Japan | M. Menzies collection |
Unloading sick prisoners from sampans at Chungkai—a painting by J. B. Chalker | |
The Kwei Noi River, seen from a northbound train, Thailand, in October 1945 | Australian War Memorial |
Hospital ward—Thailand Railway, painted by Murray Griffin | |
A trestle bridge on the Burma-Thailand Railway | Australian War Memorial page xxi |
Following page 338 | |
Malnutrition case from Hong Kong on a hospital ship | The Far East Prisoner of War Social Club |
A German internee in New Zealand | NZ Army, F. A. Marriott |
Japanese prisoners of war in the Wairarapa, New Zealand | Dept Internal Affairs, John Pascoe |