Picture No | 10297188 |
Date | 1942 |
Description | Captain H. Vernon Olver |
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A portrait of Captain H. Vernon Olver, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, a prisoner of war at Oflag IVc, Colditz. It is one of several portraits sketched by Lieut. J. F. Watton providing an interesting insight into the lives of British prisoners of war in a German camp. Watton himself was captured near the Somme in June 1940.
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Source | J.F. Watton in The Illustrated London News, 26th September 1942, page 361 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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