P03236.337 Accession Number: P03236.337

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Group portrait of transferred Prisoners of War (POW) with women and children outside a restaurant of the Hotel Alpenruhe. Identified standing from left to right are Joe Gugeon (American), 4347 Private (Pte) Patrick O'Donnell, 8th Battalion, from Melbourne, Victoria; 6234 Pte George Baker, 12th Battalion, from Bothwell, Tasmania; 355 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Albert Victor Temby, 16th Battalion, from Adelaide, South Australia; 903 Pte Frank Lyon, 21st Battalion, from Longford, Tasmania; 2634 Pte Frederick Alger, 16th Battalion, from Perth, Western Australia; and 2196 Pte Alfred Leonard Thornton Trinder, 7th Battalion, from Melbourne, Victoria. Identified sitting from left to right are Miss Vera Rick, Miss Taila Doubleday, Miss Ruby Rich and in the front is 407 Sergeant (Sgt) Clement Francis Lewis, 32nd Battalion, from Payneham, South Australia. The children are unidentified. Pte O¿Donnell enlisted on 17 July 1915 at the age of 34 and embarked for overseas on 29 December 1915 aboard HMAT Demosthenes. He was wounded and captured at Pozieres, France, on 23 August 1916 and held as a POW in Germany until transferred to Switzerland, on 27 November 1917. Pte O'Donnell was repatriated to England on 5 March 1918 and arrived back in Australia on 29 December 1918. Pte Baker enlisted at the age of 26, on 1 June 1916 and embarked for overseas on 24 August 1916 aboard HMAT Botanist. He was captured at Lagnicourt, France, on 15 April 1917 and held as a POW in Germany until transferred to Switzerland on 27 December 1917 and repatriated to England on 23 December 1918. Pte Baker arrived back in Australia on 15 April 1919. L/Cpl Temby enlisted at the age of 34 on 24 August 1914 and embarked for overseas with the 3rd Light Horse Regiment on 22 October 1915 aboard HMAT Port Lincoln. He was wounded and captured at Riencourt, France, on 11 April 1917 and held as a POW at Soltau, Germany until transferred to Switzerland on 27 November 1917. L/Cpl Temby was repatriated to England on 24 March 1918 and arrived back in Australia on 31 July 1918. Pte Lyon enlisted at the age of 28 on 5 January 1915 and embarked for overseas on 10 May 1915 aboard HMAT Ulysses. He was wounded and captured at Albert, France, on 26 August 1916. After being held in German POW camps, he was repatriated to Switzerland on 27 November 1917 and then onto England on 9 December 1918. Pte Lyon arrived back in Australia on 15 April 1919. Pte Alger enlisted at the age of 30 on 21 June 1915 and embarked for overseas on 2 September 1915 aboard HMAT Anchises. He was captured at Mouquet Farm, France, on 30 August 1916 and held as a POW in Germany. He was transferred to Switzerland in November 1917 and repatriated to England on 7 December 1918. Pte Alger arrived back in Australia on 13 April 1919. Pte Trinder enlisted on 6 March 1915 and embarked for overseas on 17 June 1915 aboard HMAT Wandilla. He was wounded at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, on 8 August 1915, three days after he landed. He was evacuated to hospital but returned to his unit at Gallipoli on 29 November 1915. He then went to the Western Front where he was wounded and captured at Pozieres, on 18 August 1916. He was held in POW camps in Germany until transferred to Switzerland on 27 December 1917. Pte Trinder was repatriated to England on 24 March 1918 and arrived back in Australia on 31 July 1918. Sgt Lewis enlisted at the age of 18 on 4 June 1915 and embarked for overseas on 18 November 1915 aboard HMAT Geelong. He was captured at Laventie, France, on 20 July 1916 and held in POW camps in Germany until transferred to Switzerland on 12 December 1916 with heart trouble. Sgt Lewis was repatriated to England on 8 December 1918 and arrived back in Australia on 27 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 397.