A YORKSHIRE museum is to tell the story of some of the bravest men to serve in the Second World War.
Behind Barbed Wire opens at the Green Howards' Regimental Museum, in Richmond, on Monday, February 10.
The exhibition focuses on the challenges faced by prisoners of war.
The display includes photographs, documents and objects from the 1940s, including an "escape suit" made from the materials available in a PoW camp near Bologna, in Italy.
Naval Commander Peynton Jones wore it during his seven months on the run. He was later followed under the wire by Jim Brown, from Richmond, who helped arrange the exhibition.
Now aged 85, Mr Brown was one of 2,000 Green Howards held in PoW camps during the Second World War.
After his escape, he evaded recapture and joined British troops after a year living in the Italian mountains with families opposed to their country's alliance with Nazi Germany.
Museum curator Major Roger Chapman said: "We are proud to pay tribute to so many Green Howards who spent their youth as prisoners of war.''
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