Museum Pieces
Three items de Neumann brought home from Timbuktu were on loan to the Imperial War Museum in London and was on display in the Survival at Sea Exhibition. They were:
- A New Testament, with a diary of the movements the prisoners made whilst captured
- A Red Cross label from a parcel addressed to Peter de Neumann in Timbuctoo
- The tumbler he made from the bottom of a Perrier water bottle by half-filling it with water, binding paraffin-soaked twine around it at the water level, and igniting it, making the glass crack at the water-line
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