| Accession Number | P05901.084 |
|---|---|
| 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
|
Outdoor portrait of four allied Prisoners of War (POW) at a POW camp at Schneidemuhl, Germany. ...
Description
Outdoor portrait of four allied Prisoners of War (POW) at a POW camp at Schneidemuhl, Germany. Identified sitting in the front is 1143 Private (Pte) David Burn Storey, 30th Battalion, from Elsternwick, Victoria who enlisted at the age of 21 on 1 July 1915 and embarked for overseas on 9 November 1915 aboard HMAT Beltana. He was wounded and captured at Fleurbaix, France, on 20 July 1916. Pte Storey was transferred to Switzerland in November 1917, was repatriated to England on 24 March 1918 and arrived back in Australia on 28 September 1918. 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.