P03236.199 Accession Number: P03236.199

Description

Studio portrait of Australian Prisoner of War (POW) 2813 Private (Pte) Edward Price, 4th Battalion, from Newcastle, NSW at Stuttgart 2 POW camp in Germany. Pte Price enlisted at the age of 21 on 18 July 1915 and embarked for overseas with the 19th Battalion on 2 November 1915 aboard HMAT Euripides. He received a gun shot wound to the foot on 26 July 1916 and was transferred to a hospital in England for treatment. After he recovered, he returned to duty on the Western Front and was captured at Demicourt, France, on 15 April 1917. Pte Price was held as a POW until repatriated to England on 1 December 1918. He arrived back in Australia on 26 April 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 234.

Details

Accession Number
P03236.199
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c August 1918
Place Made
Stuttgart
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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