P01981.024 Accession Number: P01981.024

Description

Informal portrait of three allied Prisoners of War (POW) at a POW Camp in Germany. Identified on left is 3449 Private (Pte) William Cleve Robinson Alexander Doig, 16th Battalion, from Fremantle, WA, and in centre J.A. McMillan, of 2nd Dragoon Guards (The Queen’s Bays). POW on right is unidentified. Pte Doig enlisted at the age of 24 on 17 August 1915 and embarked for overseas on 1 November 1915 aboard HMAT Benalla. He was wounded in the left hand and captured at Riencourt, France, on 11 April 1917. After being held in POW camps in Germany he was transferred to Holland in August 1917, repatriated to England on 1 January 1919 and arrived back in Australia on 17 October 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 86.

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Accession Number
P01981.024
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Support: Polyester
Date Made
c March 1917
Place Made
Germany
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor M. E. Chomley
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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