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PoW life's such a drag for officer in panto

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December 20, 2024

THE war diaries of a British PoW who became an unlikely star attraction in camp as a panto dame have come to light 79 years on.

- James Podesta

PoW life's such a drag for officer in panto

Captain John Dixon was captured at Dunkirk and spent the whole of the Second World War in captivity, keeping a journal during his five years there.

They reveal how life as a PoW enabled him to perform as a drag act.

Morale

Elaborate stage productions were put on by the men to keep up morale.

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