Group portrait of Australian Prisoners of War (POWs) at Munster 3, Germany

Outdoor portrait of Prisoners of War (POW) and their German guard at POW camp Munster 3, Germany. The POW sitting in the centre is holding a football inscribed “432 F.C. 1918” and the two sitting in front are holding a dog and a rabbit, pets or mascots.

Standing in the back row, 4th from the left is 3536 Pte Charles Joseph McCue, 53rd Battalion, from Manly, NSW. Pte McCue enlisted at the age of 20 on 18 August 1915 and embarked for overseas on 2 November 1915 aboard HMAT Euripides. He was captured at Fleurbaix, on 20 July 1916 and interned at various German POW camps. He was repatriated to England on 14 December 1918 and arrived back in Australia on 26 March 1919. Pte McCue re-enlisted in the Army in the Second World War and served from 13 December 1939 to 29 September 1943.

Standing in the back row, 5th from the left is 3219 Private (Pte) Raymond Edward Stevens, 54th Battalion, from Bega, NSW, who enlisted at the age of 21 on 2 August 1915 and embarked for overseas on 20 November 1915 aboard HMAT Suevic. He was captured at Fleurbaix, France, on 20 July 1916 and held as a POW until repatriated to England on 14 December 1918. Pte Stevens arrived back in Australia on 4 March 1919.

Standing in the back row, 6th from the left, is 2062 Pte Frank Augustine Lamprey, 32nd Battalion, from Gawler, SA. Pte Lamprey enlisted at the age of 20 on 18 August 1915. He embarked for overseas on 7 February 1916 aboard HMAT Miltiades. He was captured at Fleurbaix, on 20 July 1916 and interned at various German POW camps. He was repatriated to England on 16 December 1918 and arrived back in Australia on 31 March 1919.

Sitting in the second row, 4th from the left, is 3067 Pte James McCullock Galloway, 55th Battalion, from Balmain, NSW, who enlisted at the age of 20 on 4 August 1915 and embarked for overseas on 20 December 1915 aboard HMAT Suevic. He was captured on 20 July 1916 during the fighting around Fromelles on the Somme, France. He was held in German POW camps until he was repatriated to England in December 1918. Pte Galloway embarked to return to Australia on 2 March 1919.

Sitting in the second row, 5th from the left, is 3339 Pte John Francis Killalea, 53rd Battalion, from Surry Hills, NSW, who enlisted at the age of 43 on 15 August 1915 and embarked for overseas on 2 November 1915 aboard HMAT Euripides. He was captured at Fleurbaix, on 20 July 1916 and held as a POW in Germany. Pte Killalea was repatriated to England on 14 December 1918 and arrived back in Australia on 26 March 1919.

Sitting on the right in the front row, holding the rabbit, is 3563 Pte Herbert George Lohmann, 54th Battalion from Balmain, NSW, who enlisted on 2 November 1915 and embarked for overseas on 12 December 1915 aboard HMAT Berrima. He was captured at Laventie, France, on 20 July 1916 and was interned in at least two POW camps in Germany. He was repatriated to England on 14 December 1918 and arrived back in Australia on 26 March 1919.

Standing in the back row, first from left, is 4532 Pte Frederick John Land, 54 Battalion, born in Dulverton, Somerset. He enlisted on 23 August 1915 and embarked for overseas on 16 February 1916 aboard HMAT Ballarat. He was captured on the night of 19-20 July 1916 at Fleurbaix, France and spent the rest of the war in German POW camps. He survived, was repatriated to England in December 1918 and arrived back in Australia in March 1919.

These same POWs appear in image number P01981.053 in fancy dress. 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 298.