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Studio portrait of ex Prisoner of War (POW) 4518 Corporal (Cpl) Bertram Ernest (Bert) Horne, 54th Battalion, from Singleton, NSW taken at The Hague, Netherlands. Cpl Horne enlisted on 26 July 1915 at the age of 22 and embarked for overseas on 16 February 1916 aboard HMAT Ballarat. He was captured at Laventie, France on 20 July 1916 and held as a POW in Germany. On 20 March 1917 he wrote to the Australian Red Cross in London from his POW camp at Soltau "Well it is time I thanked you for all your kindness to me during my doss as you say. By jove you must be a busy young person, with so many boys on your hands, oh I mean prisoners. I say, do you know what becomes of the parcels sent from home, I have had a lot sent as I wrote some pitiful letters home before your goodness came to the rescue. In conclusion many many thanks, from your ever grateful, Bert Horne." Cpl Horne was repatriated to Holland (The Netherlands) on 8 August 1918 and then onto England on 22 November 1918. He arrived back in Australia on 24 February 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 239.
Outdoor portrait of a group of allied Prisoners of War (POW) at a POW camp at Schneidemuhl, Germany. Identified in back row, second from right is 5350 Private (Pte) Gordon Vidger Cross, 16th Battalion
Outdoor portrait of an Australian and an unidentified Canadian Prisoner of War (POW) at a POW camp at Minden, Germany in November 1916. Identified on the left is 1652 Corporal (Cpl) David Wilson Austi
Outdoor portrait of English Packet Staff 1918 at Prisoner of War (POW) camp, Munster, Germany. Identified sitting second from right is 4757 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Noel Leon Cordery, 15th Battalion fro
Studio portrait of 2141 Private (Pte) Cyril John Conley, 48th Battalion, from Broken Hill NSW. Pte Conley enlisted at the age of 18 on 11 May 1916 and embarked for overseas on 12 August 1916 aboard HM
Prisoners of War (POW) standing near the entrance to their camp at Friedrichsfeld, Germany. Photograph sent to Australian Red Cross London by 915 Private (Pte) John Robert Colledge, 32nd Battalion fro
Studio portrait of two Australian Prisoners of War (POW). Standing is 4716A Private (Pte) Frederick Charles Gaffney, 22nd Battalion from Melbourne, Victoria. The soldier sitting is unidentified. Pte G
