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Prisoners of war

Images

  • 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].
  • 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-.
  • Return of wounded Confederate prisoners, under a flag of truce, during the American Civil War. Wood engraving.
  • Remarkable characters : [Peter Williamson].
  • [British Red Cross Society leaflet about their international tracing and message service].
  • 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.
  • [British Red Cross Society leaflet about their international tracing and message service].
  • 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.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

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

    | Date: 1914 | Reference: 24580i
  • view Amateur actors, some in drag, posing on stage for "Miquette & sa mere"; at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 191-.
    • Pictures
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    Amateur actors, some in drag, posing on stage for "Miquette & sa mere"; at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 191-.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1919?] | Reference: 2060510i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
    • Ephemera

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

    Moreau, Jean Victor Marie, 1763-1813. | Date: [1804?]
    • Books

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

    Glusman, John. | Date: 2005
    • Books

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

    De Wardener, H. E. (Hugh Edward) | Date: [1947]
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