Outdoor group portrait of allied Prisoners of War (POW) at German POW Camp Freiburg. Identified ...

Outdoor group portrait of allied Prisoners of War (POW) at German POW Camp Freiburg. Identified back row, far left is Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson VC, Worcestershire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps and back row, 3rd from left 1504 Lieutenant Maurice Francis Burke, 29th Battalion. The inscription on the verso of the card states "Camp Committee". Lt Robinson was awarded the Victoria Cross on 10 September 1916 for the destruction of the SL11 airship over Hertfordshire, Britain on the night of 2 September 1916. On 5 April 1917, Robinson's Bristol was attacked by Baron Manfred von Richthofen and forced down behind enemy lines. Robinson was taken prisoner of war and sent to the POW camp in Freiburg. The black mourning band he is wearing may mark the death of Robinson's sister Grace, of Malaria in July of 1917. After several escape attempts in late 1917, Robinson was court martialled and sent to Zorndorf POW Camp. On 2 May 1918, he was transferred to Clausthal in the Hartz mountains, then Holzminden. He was repatriated to England on 14 December 1918. On 31 December 1918, Robinson died of influenza. Lt Burke enlisted at the age of 28 on 11 August 1914 and served overseas in Rabaul with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF). He returned to Australia and was discharged on 4 March 1915. He subsequently re-enlisted on 20 June 1915 and embarked for overseas on 10 November 1915 aboard HMAT Ascanius. He was captured on 2 March 1917 at Le Transloy, France, where he received a hand grenade splinter wound to the right forearm and both legs. He was hospitalised at Osnabruck, before being transferred to POW Camps at Karlsruhe, then Freiburg. He was repatriated to England on 4 December 1918.