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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Functional object - Jewellery Box, 1940's
Jewellery box presented to Vincent Villarroya, an Army Guard/Interpreter for Italian POW's, by POW Vincenzo LongoEight sided wooden jewel box with paneled lid of light and dark wood with a small round knob on top. Lid is lined with blue material. Box is padded and lined with blue materialjewellery box, villarroya, camp 13, tatura, ww2, handcrafts, woodwork, italian pow's -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Picture (embroidered), Head of Christ, 1945
Made by Vincenzo Longo, an Italian POW, in Murchison Camp 13, Graytown POW Camp and Tocumwal and presented to Vincent Villarroya, an Army Guard/Interpreter for Italian POW'sWooden framed, embroidered picture of "Head of Christ" worked in shades of red, blue, brown and cream cottons. Face and hands have been drawn. A bronze plaque in a small plastic bag is stuck on the back of the pictureDonated by the daughters of Vincent Villarroy 7/12/2007head of christ, embroidery, longo v, villarroya family, camp 13, tatura, ww2 camp 13, graytown pow camp, tocumwal, handcrafts