E04234 Accession Number: E04234

Description

An outdoors informal group portrait of unidentified repatriated British and Australian prisoners of war, including a sailor (front row, second from the right), passing through a Base Depot, receiving a change of clothes. These men, most of who were captured at the struggle for Bullecourt on 12 April 1917, had been interned in Germany for periods of up to 20 months.

Details

Accession Number
E04234
Photographer
Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
21 December 1918
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Australian Official Photograph
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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