P03236.084 Accession Number: P03236.084

Description

Outdoor portrait of Australian Prisoner of War (POW) 4082 Private (Pte) Frederick Charles Bennett, 25th Battalion from Townsville, Queensland at German POW Camp Limburg, Germany. Pte Bennett enlisted on 13 September 1915 and embarked for overseas on 28 March 1916 aboard HMAT Commonwealth. He was captured at Pozieres, France on 23 July 1916 and held as a POW until repatriated to England in December 1918. He was discharged from the Australian army in England on 1 May 1919. His pay book was found in the German War Office in Berlin in September 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 111.

Details

Accession Number
P03236.084
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
1917
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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