P03236.065 Accession Number: P03236.065

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Studio portrait of Australian brothers 2612 Private (Pte) Harry Alfred Milton Howard, 5th Pioneer Battalion (on left) and 1854 Pte Albert Alexander Howard, 10th Battalion from Norwood, South Australia. Pte Harry Howard enlisted at the age of 18 on 29 June 1916 and embarked for overseas on 21 September 1916 aboard HMAT Commonwealth. He served in France and returned to Australia on 30 August 1919. Pte Albert Howard enlisted at the age of 22 on 5 January 1915 and embarked for overseas on 1 April 1915 aboard HMAT Port Lincoln. After serving at Gallipoli, he was transferred to the Western Front where he was wounded in both arms and captured at Mouquet Farm, France on 22 August 1916. He was held as a Prisoner of War (POW) in Germany before being transferred to Switzerland on 13 December 1916. He was repatriated to England on 11 September 1917 and arrived back in Australian on 20 December 1917. There is no record of Pte Harry Howard being a POW and this photograph was probably taken in England around September/October 1917. Handwritten note on face of photograph reads: "Yours Sincerely Harry Howard¿ and ¿Yours Sincerely Albert Howard" 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 91.

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Accession Number
P03236.065
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c October 1917
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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