Graveyard at Interlaken, Switzerland, with stone grave markers in background that appear to be ...

Graveyard at Interlaken, Switzerland, with stone grave markers in background that appear to be for French soldiers. The wooden grave markers at the front are inscribed, from left to right: “No 106065 CPL William Atkinson 1st Canadian Mtd [Mounted] Rifles, Born 28 Feb 1888, Died 24 Oct 1918; No 28816 Pt Alfred Stanaway 1st New Zealand Regt, Born 8 Mar 1883, Died 24 Oct 1918; No 5102 Pt A. Greenwood 46th Australian Regt, Born 24 March 1890, Died 4 Nov 1918; No 2242 CPL George Goudie 1st Newfoundland Regt [Canada], Born 21 July 1897, Died 6 Nov 1918; No 8587 LCPL William Scott 1st S. Staffordshire Regt [United Kingdom], Born 6 October 1887, Died 7 November 1918; No 1339 LCPL C. Bromfield 14th Australian Regt, Born 20 July 1897, Died 7 Nov 1918”. Further details on the Australians are as follows: 5102 Private (Pte) Albert Greenwood, 14th Battalion from Lyonville, Victoria, enlisted at the age of 26 on 17 January 1916 and embarked for overseas on 14 March 1916 aboard HMAT Anchises. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Bullecourt, France, on 11 April 1917 and later wrote from a POW camp at Munster, Germany on 16 September 1917 “My health is fairly good but I have lost the sight of left eye – was wounded.” He was transferred to Switzerland on 27 December 1917 and died of pneumonia on 4 November 1918. 1339 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Charles Frederick Bromfield, 14th Battalion, from Childers, Victoria, enlisted at the age of 17 on 6 October 1914 and embarked for overseas on 22 December 1914 aboard HMAT Berrima. He returned to Australia in April 1915 but then embarked for overseas again on 14 March 1916. He received gun shot wounds to the left thigh, right elbow and knee and was captured at Riencourt, France, on 11 April 1917. After a short time in POW camps in Germany, he was transferred to Switzerland where he also died of pneumonia on 7 November 1918. 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 319.