The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of two exchanged Prisoners of War (POW), in Switzerland. On left is an unidentified British soldier and on right is 5733 Private (Pte) Benjamin George Hutchings, 16th Battalion, from Perth, Western Australia. Pte Hutchings enlisted at the age of 29 on 20 March 1916 and embarked for overseas on 18 July 1916 aboard HMAT Seang Bee. He was wounded and captured at Bapaume, France, on 11 April 1917 and held as a POW in Germany until he was repatriated to Switzerland on 30 August 1918 and then onto England on 9 December 1918. Pte Hutchings arrived back in Australia on 10 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 246.
Studio portrait of Australian Prisoner of War (POW) 5668 Private (Pte) Frederick James Begg, 16th Battalion, from Picton, Western Australia taken at Schneidemuhl, POW camp, Germany. Pte Begg enlisted
Studio portrait of Australian Prisoner of War (POW) 1959 Private (Pte) Stanley Osmond Norris, 50th Battalion from Cowell, South Australia. Pte Norris enlisted at the age of 26 on 6 March 1916 and emba
Outdoor portrait of Australian Prisoner of War (POW) 1896 Private (Pte) Douglas Coulthard, 50th Battalion from Wayville, South Australia. Pte Coulthard enlisted on 16 March 1916 at the age of 18 and e
Studio portrait of Australian Prisoner of War (POW) 5668 Private (Pte) Frederick James Begg, 16th Battalion, from Picton, Western Australia. He is wearing a straw hat turned up like a slouch hat with
Postcard of a field of narcissus flowers at Chateau d’Oex, Switzerland, sent to the Australian Red Cross, London by an exchanged Prisoner of War (POW) in Switzerland, awaiting repatriation to Britain.
Studio portrait of Australian Prisoner of War (POW) 3342 Corporal (Cpl) Stephen Joyce, 15th Battalion, from Townsville, Queensland at POW camp Friedrichsfeld, Germany. Cpl Joyce enlisted on 30 July 19
