P01981.014 Accession Number: P01981.014

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Studio portrait of two Prisoners of War (POW) at Senne II Sennelager POW Camp Germany. Identified on right is 1154 Private (Pte) John Cunningham, 22nd Battalion from Cheltenham Victoria. The unidentified POW on left (POW number 99891) is wearing cap badges RFS (Royal Scots Fusiliers) and the exploding bomb. Pte Cunningham enlisted on 7 May 1915 and embarked for overseas on 10 May 1915 aboard HMAT Ulysses. He was captured on the Somme on 4 August 1916 and held as a POW and assigned POW number 16863. He wrote from Sennelager on 3 September 1917 “I am alright but my head gives me trouble sometimes.” Pte Cunningham was repatriated to England on 15 December 1918 and embarked to return to Australia on 3 March 1919. One of a series of over 400 photographs sent by Australian POWs in German camps to Miss M. E. Chomley, Secretary, Prisoners Department, Australian-British Red Cross Society, London. Original album housed in AWM Research Centre at RC00864, Album image number 49.

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Accession Number
P01981.014
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Support: Polyester
Date Made
c 1917
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor M. E. Chomley
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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