Lieutenant L.A. Smith, probably of Royal Flying Corps enjoying the music being played on handmade ...

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Accession Number P01981.011
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Atelier Fritz Albrecht
Place made Germany: Baden-Wurttemberg, Karlsruhe
Date made c 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Lieutenant L.A. Smith, probably of Royal Flying Corps enjoying the music being played on handmade instruments by two other officers, in their barracks at Karlsruhe officers' prisoner of war (POW) camp, Germany. One of a series of over 400 photographs sent by Australian POWs in German camps to Miss M. E. Chomley, Secretary, Prisoners Department, Australian-British Red Cross Society, London. Original album housed in AWM Research Centre at RC00864, Album image number 26.