Grave of 5810 Private (Pte) William Francis Henderson, 18th Battalion from Sydney NSW. A large ...

Grave of 5810 Private (Pte) William Francis Henderson, 18th Battalion from Sydney NSW. A large wreath is propped up against the simple black cross amongst all the white crosses for the Germany soldiers. Pte Henderson enlisted at the age of 18 on 26 June 1916 and embarked for overseas on 7 October 1916 aboard HMAT Ceramic. He was captured at Bullecourt, France on 15 April 1917 and held as a POW in Germany. Pte Henderson died of dysentery at Wittenberg, Germany on 16 August 1917. In 1925 his body was exhumed from the Wittenberg POW cemetery and re-interred in the Berlin South Western Cemetery, Stahnsdorf, 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 196.