Studio portrait of British Prisoner of War (POW) J.W. Ackroyd, from Rotherham, Yorkshire, wearing ...

Accession Number	P05901.001
Collection type	Photograph
Object type	Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker	Unknown
Place made	Germany: Schneidemuhl
Date made	c 1918
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Studio portrait of British Prisoner of War (POW) J.W. Ackroyd, from Rotherham, Yorkshire, wearing a football uniform and posing with a football, at Schneidemuhl, POW camp, Germany. The handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads “To Jim Skelly, in rememberance [sic] of old times at Schneidemuhl 1917-1918. J.W. Ackroyd, 37 Chapel Street, Eastwood View, Rotherham, Yorkshire.” One of a series of over 80 photographs of Allied POWs in the camp at Schneidemuhl, given to 3235 Corporal (Cpl) James Skelly, 55th Battalion, from Rockdale, NSW, by fellow POWs as a souvenir of their time together. Cpl Skelly was a self-described “special correspondent” for the Australian Red Cross while at Schneidemuhl and originally donated these photographs to the Ramsgate R.S.L. The original is stored in the AWM archive store.