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    BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR IN POLAND, 1940-1945
    Object description: A rugby match in progress at the Stalag XXID, Poznań (Posen).
    Catalogue number: HU 9302
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    BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR IN POLAND, 1940-1945
    Object description: Group photograph of the "Aston Villa" football team, made of British POWs, at the Stalag XXID, Poznań (Posen). The name of the team would imply those soldiers came from the Birmingham area.
    Catalogue number: HU 9282
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    BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR IN POLAND, 1940-1945
    Object description
    Group photograph of the "Blackpool" football team, made of British POWs, at the Stalag XXID, Poznań (Posen).
    Catalogue number: HU 9283
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    BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY, 1940-1945
    Object description: Members of a British POW rugby team at the town of Laband, the base for working parties E1 and E708 from the Stalag VIIIB.
    From left to right (probably); Lewis, Johnson, Tamblyn, Nelmes, Poole, Jones, Hill, Gardner, Jones, Maybanks, Company Sergeant Major (CSM Leader, in uniform, featured also in photographs HU 9292, HU 9293, HU 9313, HU 9314), Tovey, Murphy, Donn
    Catalogue number: HU 9311

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    THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN FRANCE, 1939-1940
    Object description: A game of football at Chanzy barracks, Le Mans. Ordnance sergeants in trousers against men in shorts on the BEF assembly ground. (Note the gun mounted on a tripod as a precaution against air attack).
    Catalogue number: O 12
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    ROYAL AIR FORCE: 2ND TACTICAL AIR FORCE, 1943-1945.
    Object description: Ground crew enjoying a game of cricket as others service a Hawker Typhoon Mark IB of No. 174 Squadron RAF outside a canvas hangar at B5/Le Fresne Camilly, Normandy.
    Catalogue number: CL 407
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    I try to attach a painting by the POW Hanson-Bay from 1941 in OFLAG VB Biberach, only 2 months before the escape of26 officers.
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