Hi
I guess I should have discussed past Bakelite sniffing with my brother the brilliant scientist!
One other POW "factoid" that I will mention is that the "kriegies" soon worked out that the more stamps on a document the better.
So they would create their forged paperwork and stamp them with rubber stamps cut from pieces of material, usually the sole of a boot, worked with razor blades or chips of broken glass.
We should not lose sight of the fact that POWs represented a vast body of talent, men who were artists, jewellers, engineers, etc. before going "into the bag".
Carving this lovely Welch badge would have been a "passion project" for someone like this.
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