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French or Belgian prisoners of war, some in drag, posing on stage during a crowded scene of "La dame aux camélias"; at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 191-.

[British Red Cross Society leaflet about their international tracing and message service].

Return of wounded Confederate prisoners, under a flag of truce, during the American Civil War. Wood engraving.

Remarkable characters : [Peter Williamson].

French prisoners of war, some in drag, in a performance of "Les maris de Léontine" at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 1918.

A Jewish military "money surgeon" searches the mouth of a prisoner of war for gold fillings (?), others watch and wait. Coloured pen and ink drawing.

"Behind barbed wire : a photographic record of life in enemy prison camps". Printed booklet, 1942.

World War One: back view of a man seated on a cushion on the ground. Black chalk drawing, c. 1914.

Amateur actors, some in drag, posing on stage for "Miquette & sa mere"; at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Letter from Moreau to Bonaparte : Les nouvelles à la main, Ventose an. 12, no. 2, or Paris, March 19, 1804, contains what follows.

Conduct under fire : four American doctors and their fight for life as prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 / John A. Glusman.

Cerebral beriberi (Wernicke's Encephalopathy) : review of 52 cases in a Singapore Prisoner-of-War hospital / H.E. de Wardener, B. Lennox.

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World War One: back view of a man seated on a cushion on the ground. Black chalk drawing, c. 1914.

Amateur actors, some in drag, posing on stage for "Miquette & sa mere"; at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Letter from Moreau to Bonaparte : Les nouvelles à la main, Ventose an. 12, no. 2, or Paris, March 19, 1804, contains what follows.

Conduct under fire : four American doctors and their fight for life as prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 / John A. Glusman.

Cerebral beriberi (Wernicke's Encephalopathy) : review of 52 cases in a Singapore Prisoner-of-War hospital / H.E. de Wardener, B. Lennox.