Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company visually-hidden the inscription "WORLD WAR" above

the inscription "WORLD WAR" above

After initially serving in training and replacement battalions

rite for Science and Arts

He left for the 5th Brigade

Germany, Third Reich. A POW Camp Art Relief by a Captive Mariner Employed with the Erie Peat Company visually-hidden the inscription "WORLD WAR" above(Grabenkunst Plakette). An interesting prisoner of war (POW) camp art relief, constructed of hand carved wood with lacquer and multi coloured paint, depicting a stag in a traditional alpine forest scene, situated within a border of stylized oak leaves, the reverse retaining a wire hanger and period label bearing a handwritten inscription indicating that the relief was carved by a captured German merchant mariner who was among the 60 employed from 1943