Mar 23, 2024
Repatriated prisoners from Switzerland at a convalescent camp in Wokingham, 14th September 1917.
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Repatriated prisoners from Switzerland at a convalescent camp in Wokingham, 14th September 1917.
© IWM (Q 23849) Third Battle of the Aisne. British prisoners resting in a flattened trench while being guarded by a German soldier. Near Berry-au-Bac, May 1918.
Third Battle of the Aisne. British prisoners resting in a flattened trench while being guarded by a German soldier. Near Berry-au-Bac, May 1918.
© IWM (SE 3990) Liberated POWs at Rangoon jail, 3 May 1945. Major McLeod, a Canadian doctor who served with the Indian Medical Service, inspects one of his patients, Corporal J Usher, whose leg he had to amputate during their captivity.
The Colditz Cock was a glider built by British POWs for an escape from Colditz Castle in Germany. The idea was from Lieutenant Tony Rolt who noticed the chapel roof line was obscured from German view and would make a good launching point. They could glide across the River Mulde to freedom. The glider was built by Bill Goldfinch and Jack Best with twelve assistants in the lower attic. It was built with stolen wood hidden behind a false wall. The glider was approaching completion when the American Army liberated the camp on April 16, 1945. The only evidence of the Coldtiz Cock is this photograph taken by an American soldier.
© IWM (Q 24069) British POWs writing letters to their families in a temporary camp, during Wilhelm II’s Michael Offensive, March-April 1918.