Interned prisoners at Ruhleben performing Trial by Jury, WW1
Interned prisoners at Ruhleben camp near Berlin, dressed up in costume for a production of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, Trial by Jury. The play was produced by Mr J. H. Corless, a former member of the Wigan and District Amateur Operatic Society, and the musical director was Dr. A. G. Claypole, organist at St. Luke's, Derby. All the dresses used in the play were made in the camp by the prisoners
Picture No
14098561
Media ID
45692054
Size
5800px x 3457px
(2.2MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Sphere, 8 January 1916
Date
1916
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