The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of ex-Prisoner of War (POW) 5077 Private (Pte) William Collins, 11th Battalion, from Katanning, Western Australia who enlisted on 10 February 1916 at the age of 30 and embarked for overseas on 31 March 1916 aboard HMAT Shropshire. After his captured at Boursies, France, on 15 April 1917 he was held in POW camps in Limburg, Dulmen, Munster and Sennelager in Germany. He wrote from the latter camp on 26 May 1918 "I am quite well now thanks to the kindly help of the Red Cross. I have received all the food parcels up to the present. I received no parcels of any description till about December 1917." Pte Collins was repatriated to England on 15 December 1918 and arrived back in Australia on 16 February 1920. 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 376.
Studio portrait of two Prisoners of War (POW) at Senne II Sennelager POW Camp Germany. Identified on right is 1154 Private (Pte) John Cunningham, 22nd Battalion from Cheltenham Victoria. The unidentif
Studio portrait of two Prisoners of War (POW) at German POW camp Lager I Munster. Identified standing on right is 4378 Private (Pte) Walter Edward Tilley, 54th Battalion, from Sydney NSW. Pte Tilley e
Depicts a loaf of bread with '15' on the top. Rations in the Oflag 7B camp were provided by the German guards, however, inmates subsituted this diet with foodstuffs received through Red Cross parcels.
Studio portrait of Australian Prisoner of War (POW) 3339 Private (Pte) John Francis Killalea, 53rd Battalion, from Surry Hills, NSW, at German POW camp Munster, Germany. Pte Killalea enlisted at the a
Studio portrait of six Prisoners of War (POW) at German POW Camp Dulmen, Germany. Photograph sent to Australian Red Cross in London by 2013 Private (Pte) John Edward Withnell, 28th Battalion, from Per
Studio portrait of Australian Prisoner of War (POW) Alan Victor Underwood who served under the alias 2723 Corporal (Cpl) Reginald Allan Smart, 59th Battalion, from Maribyrnong, Victoria. He is wearing
