Outdoor portrait of two allied Prisoners of War (POW) at a POW camp at Schneidemuhl, Germany. ...

Outdoor portrait of two allied Prisoners of War (POW) at a POW camp at Schneidemuhl, Germany. Identified standing on the right is 2734 Private (Pte) Colin Alexander Mitchell, 53rd Battalion, from Tempe, NSW who enlisted on 17 August 1915 and embarked for overseas on 2 November 1915 aboard HMAT Euripides. He was captured at Fleurbaix, France, on 20 July 1916. He wrote a letter from Schneidemuhl POW camp on 30 October 1917 stating "I have not been very well lately. I have been suffering a lot lately with my head and heart. I have been wounded with shrapnel in the head and I think that is the cause of it. I am at present in the Camp Hospital. I was very young when I left Australia. I am not yet 18, and this life has been playing a lot on my brains. I am sending you a photo of me I have been receiving my parcels better lately." Pte Mitchell was transferred to Holland in May 1918, repatriated to England in October 1918 and embarked to return to Australia in February 1919. 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 RSL. The original is stored in the AWM archive store.