Studio portrait of Prisoner of War (POW) Sergeant (Sgt) Pannell of 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment ...

Accession Number P05901.026
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

Studio portrait of Prisoner of War (POW) Sergeant (Sgt) Pannell of 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, at Schneidemuhl POW camp, Germany. Sgt Pannell is wearing a checked shirt with detachable white collar and a spotted tie with his uniform. 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.