Accession Number | P04641.188 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Transparency |
Maker |
Bushby, Donald Douglas George |
Date made | 1953 |
Conflict |
Korea, 1950-1953 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Unidentified US Army chaplain enthusiastically leading hymn singing at a prisoner of war (POW) ...
Description
Unidentified US Army chaplain enthusiastically leading hymn singing at a prisoner of war (POW) camp. The POWs at rear are holding opened gospels probably donated by the Korean Bible Society. The POW camp is is probably on Koje-do Island. One of a series of photographs taken by the Australian Mr Douglas (Doug) Bushby in his capacity as a UN accredited war correspondent. Mr Bushby devoted much of his time to relief and missionary work amongst Korean refugees, orphans and North Korean and Chinese prisoners of war.