On-stage portrait of cast members of a play produced by allied Prisoners of War (POW) at a POW ...

Accession Number P05901.010
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

On-stage portrait of cast members of a play produced by allied Prisoners of War (POW) at a POW Camp at Schneidemuhl, Germany. 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.