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Content Note: Prisoners at a "food bash" or celebratory party for which they had saved up food. (Such bashes took place on holidays or birthdays).

Content Note: Prisoner recreational activities. Two prisoners box in a ring in front of a crowd. Barrack is visible in the background.

Content Note: Grave in which 50 British officers were buried after their failed attempt to escape. Minister stands over the grave with prisoners on either side of him.

Content Note: Prisoner choir singing Handel's Messiah. (Crawford is standing under the arrow.)

Content Note: Prisoners moving coal in a wheel barrow.

Content Note: Barrack that collapsed because much of the wood had been removed to help build the escape tunnel and a lot of dirt from the tunnel had been hidden in the ceiling.

Content Note: Prison doctor examines a prisoner's hand in the infirmary in the camp.

Content Note: Stove mounted on wheels.

Content Note: Tables with books on them surrounded by bookcases.

Content Note: Two prisoners type, another sits at a desk doing paperwork. This room was available for the prisoners' senior officers to help the maintain military rule.