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POWs dressed as Dutch men and women

This image comes from the show, 'Whizz-Bang', an non-stop revue performed on 30 and 31 May 1944. An ingenious backstage team made costumes from palliasses, cloth wrappings from parcels from home, sheets and/or groundsheets.

Courtesy of Jack Smallridge