Sports carnival (possibly cock fighting) at a Prisoner of War (POW) camp at Freiburg, Germany. ...

Sports carnival (possibly cock fighting) at a Prisoner of War (POW) camp at Freiburg, Germany. Identified in centre and marked with a v is Lieutenant (Lt) Norman John Hill, 29th Battalion, from Blackheath, NSW. Lt Hill is on the back of Lt Maurice Francis Burke, 29th Battalion, from St Kilda, Victoria. Lt Hill enlisted at the age of 24 on 22 June 1915 and embarked for overseas with the 31st Battalion on 19 February 1916 aboard HMAT Ballarat. He was captured at Polygon Wood, France, on 26 September 1917 after receiving a gun shot wound to the left eye which he subsequently lost. Lt Hill was held as a POW in Germany until he was repatriated to England on 7 December 1918 and eventually returned to Australia on 15 May 1919. Lt Burke enlisted at the age of 28 on 11 August 1914 and served overseas in Rabaul with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF). He returned to Australia and was discharged on 4 March 1915. He subsequently re-enlisted on 20 June 1915 and embarked for overseas on 10 November 1915 aboard HMAT Ascanius. He was captured on 2 March 1917 at Le Transloy, France, where he received a hand grenade splinter wound to the right forearm and both legs. After being held in several POW Camps in Germany, he was repatriated to England on 4 December 1918. Two weeks later he married Hilda Florence Derry at Fulham and embarked to return to Australia with his wife on 8 August 1919. 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 328.