Place | Middle East |
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Accession Number | MEC1590 |
Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Negative |
Maker |
Le Guay, Laurence Craddock |
Date made | c 1944 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Cairo, Egypt. c. 1944. Scene at a reception in Cairo for repatriated AIF prisoners of war (POWs) ...
Description
Cairo, Egypt. c. 1944. Scene at a reception in Cairo for repatriated AIF prisoners of war (POWs) who will soon be on board a ship bound for Australia. They were exchanged for German prisoners in our hands and travelled through Germany on a hospital train to Marseilles, there embarking on the sea voyage to Barcelona where the exchanges were effected under the auspices of a neutral.