P05901.059 Accession Number: P05901.059

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Informal portrait of unidentified allied Prisoners of War (POW) unloading parcels from a horse-drawn cart at the Schneidemuhl POW camp, north of Posen, Germany. One of a series of over 80 photographs of Allied POWs in the camp at Schneidemuhl, given to 3235 Corporal (Cpl) James Skelly, 55th Battalion, from Rockdale, NSW, by fellow POWs as a souvenir of their time together. Cpl Skelly was a self-described "special correspondent" for the Australian Red Cross while at Schneidemuhl and originally donated these photographs to the Ramsgate R.S.L. The original is stored in the AWM archive store.

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Accession Number
P05901.059
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Date Made
c 1918
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Kindly donated by Ramsgate R.S.L.
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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