IMAGE
Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :A wartime log 1944-1945
- Date
- 1944 - 1945
- By
- Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, 1906-1977
- Reference
- E-275
- Description
Cartoons, portraits, incidents in life as a prisoner of war at Oflag 79 at Braunschweig (Brunswick) in Germany. The first drawing is a self-portrait. Includes MS notes of names and addresses of fellow prisoners, words of songs, ration lists
Pages [77-81] contain names and address of South African prisoners
Page [82] contains names and addresses of Canadian prisoners (with Indian head, maple leaf and beaver)
Pages [83-84] contain names and addresses of American prisoners
Pages [85-87] contain names and addresses of English prisoners (with pink rose)
Pages [88-89] contain names and address of Scottish, Ceylonese and Indian prisoners (with Scottish thistle)
Page [90] contains names and addresses of Irish prisoners, with shamrock leaves
Pages [92-93] contain names and addresses of Australian prisoners (with a young woman framed in wattle flowers and leaves)
Pages [96-99] contain names and addresses of New Zealand prisoners (with a drawing of a Maori girl and fern)
In the first half of the book, reference numbers for each page follow the printed numbering of the book, but in the centre, several other pages are inserted, thus altering the reference numbering of following pages in the last half of the book.
Inscriptions: Some signed: D.G.
Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s).
Physical Description: Crayon and pencil drawings in notebook 170 mm green buckram, black spine
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Format
- 1 sketchbook(s), Works of art, Pencil works, Crayon drawings, Cartoons (Commentary), Humorous pictures, Crayon and pencil drawings in notebook 170 mm green buckram, black spine
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Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :My Sarie Marais is so ver van my hart .. [1944?]
Date: 1944
From: Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :A wartime log 1944-1945
Reference: E-275-077
Description: The words in Afrikaans of the South African song "Sarie Marais", with an illustration of a blonde beribboned girl and a wagon train. The following pages contain many autograph names and addresses of South African soldiers. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil drawing on page of notebook, 171 x 122 mm
[Gray, George Duncan Dunbar], b 1906 :KGL. VIII F. Marisch-Trubau. 1943-44.
Date: 1943 - 1944
From: Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :A wartime log 1944-1945
Reference: E-275-075
Description: Shows a four-storey building and a smaller house at the left. In the foreground are two fences of barbed wire. Other Titles - Oflag Eight, Kriegsgefangenenlager, Prisoner-of-war camp Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and coloured pencil drawing on page of notebook, 122 x 171 mm
Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :Stufas. [ca 1944]
Date: 1944 - 1945
From: Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :A wartime log 1944-1945
Reference: E-275-011
Description: Shows two kinds of stove; the upper image is of a squatting man frying fish over a primus; the lower image appears to show a man providing power to boil water by turning a wheel to move a fan belt attached to a primus. Other Titles - Stoves Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Initials DG Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and coloured pencil drawing on page of notebook, 171 x 122 mm
[Gray, George Duncan Dunbar], b 1906 :[View from a bunk bed, Brunswick prison camp? 1944?]
Date: 1944 - 1945
From: Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :A wartime log 1944-1945
Reference: E-275-117
Description: Shows a view drawn by a man who is lying on his back on the checked blanket and pillow of the lower bunk, showing his body as seen from the head, his roommate's head peering over from the top bunk, shelves at the foot of the bed with books, and hanging socks. The artist holds a cigarette up in his left hand. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and gouache on page of notebook, 171 x 122 mm
Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :Mary Mary quite contrary ... [1944?]
Date: 1944
From: Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :A wartime log 1944-1945
Reference: E-275-073
Description: Rhyme: "Mary Mary, quite contrary / What does your garden grow?" / 'Silver bells and cockle shells / And one God-damned Petunia'. Shows a little blond girl looking in disgust at the petunia in her garden. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Initials DG Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and coloured pencil drawing on page of notebook, 171 x 122 mm
Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :The great cigarette crisis, Oct '44. 10 RM per pkt;...
Date: 1944 - 1945
From: Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :A wartime log 1944-1945
Reference: E-275-035
Description: Shows a man ostentatiously lighting a cigarette in front of two jealous onlookers. In the background, a figure paces, and another crawls. Written commentary on the facing page says: "In the subsequent crises, Feby/March 1945, cigs and tobacco reached the fantastic level of 70 stg per 100 cigs or 4oz tobacco. Goon rye & potato bread 20-25 stg per 1500 gram (approx 3 1/4 lbs) loaf! A Capone and J Diamond were nice kindly characters compared to some of the gentry hereabouts!" Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Initials DG Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil drawing on page of notebook, 171 x 122 mm
Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :L C C [cleaner. 1944?]
Date: 1944 - 1945
From: Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :A wartime log 1944-1945
Reference: E-275-059
Description: Shows a man with war medals seated on a stool in a toilet room, with a bucket and broom beside him. He wears medals, a peaked cap with the intitials LCC (London City Council?) and a blue uniform jacket, and is thinking dolefully of outdoor pit toilets. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Initials DG Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil drawing on page of notebook, 171 x 122 mm
Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :In the air raid shelter, Oflag 79. 12/8/[19]44.
Date: 1944
From: Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :A wartime log 1944-1945
Reference: E-275-033
Description: Shows five apprehensive men waiting in an air raid shelter. They are illuminated by a match being used to light a cigarette. A cutting in German below, says "warfen schwachere britische Fliegerverbande in de Nacht Bomben auf Braunschweig" ("A weak British air formation bombed Brunswick during the night". Gray has queried the "Weak" because they dropped 2000 tons according to BBC news) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Initials DG Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil drawing on page of notebook, 171 x 122 mm
Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :Design for living [1944-1945]
Date: 1944 - 1945
From: Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :A wartime log 1944-1945
Reference: E-275-029
Description: Shows two men, in top and bottom bunks which are collapsing. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Initials DG Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil drawing on cicular paper diameter 120 mm, stuck to page of notebook, 171 x 122 mm
Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :Sonnen Leidenschaft [1945]
Date: 1945
From: Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :A wartime log 1944-1945
Reference: E-275-017
Description: Shows a naked man lying relaxing on his back under a tree with his eyes closed. An inset above shows the rear view of the head and shoulders of a man wrapped in a blue cloth, with two birds sitting on him, one on his head and one on his shoulder. Other Titles - A passion for the sun Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Initials DG Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil drawing on page of notebook, 171 x 122 mm