Reference code
ZA UCT BC1462_F_F1
Title
Prisoner of war watercolour sketchbook
Date(s)
- 1944 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
Name of creator
(1897-1977)
Name of creator
(1928-2009)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
“Palestine, a series of memory sketches by Brian Mansergh, dedicated to the remants of the Old World. These sketches are not accurate records but memory impressions, drawn in a prison camp in Germany”. Offlag XII B, Germany, December 1944. 41 sheets, bound by Chota Morris of Gurka Regiment “out of bits and pieces – literally bits – we are behind wire”. Also 2pp photocopy from book about war in the desert by Neil Orpen mentioning BM. Also 5 sheets c2003 about presentation box. Also 7 sheets of preliminary notes & sketches (including one written on a YMCA War prisoners aid letter; a preliminary sketch map of Palestine; a list of POW lectures on Rebuilding Britain; a sketch map of Africa seemingly showing his route to North Africa; an key word outline of his POW experience; Brief summary of his architectural manifesto).