Fantome,
Thank you for the very moving verses (Slessor was a poet, for sure). One way and another, the Mediterranean must have been awash with corpses during the war. Mercifully they would sink to the bottom after a few days hovering between night and day. Few, I imagine, would be beached to receive even a hurried burial. "Davy Jones' Locker" for he rest.
Warmtoast,
...nowadays relatively upmarket being very near to the centre of London...
Ah, hindsight, hindsight ! If only you'd had a bit of spare capital at the time of the blitz, I suppose you could have bought these places for a song and made a killing after the war.
Nearly as good as buying up war-surplus new Spitfires for £25 a throw and storing them in an old barn for 70 years !
Chugalug,
Yes, it was rather an Arc de Triomphe, wasn't it ? "Stammlager" puzzled me a bit; omniscient Wiki tells me it is "Stalag" written out in full. You live and learn.
Irritants: note that all the prisoners are out of step with the guard !
Flowing Locks: there won't be much left after I've been re-thatched !
Cheers, both, Danny.