IMAGE
Race day bookies at Campo PG 78/1 at Aquafredda, Italy - Photograph taken by H R Dixon
- Date
- 1943
- By
- Dixon, H R, active 1942
- Reference
- PAColl-1615-04
- Description
Allied prisoners of war gathered in Campo PG 78/1, Aquafredda, Italy. Photographed by H R Dixon in 1943.
An identical image is held in the Photograph archive at DA 10594
Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Race day - Bookies!!
Campo PG 78/1, Aquafredda, was a work camp 2,000 feet up in the hills north east of Sulmona. It was administered from Campo PG 78 at Sulmona (see Prisoners of War; W Wynne Mason; War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, New Zealand, 1954; pps 207-08, and 223).
This same image is in the DA archive in the Turnbull Library. Associated information states that the subject is Allied prisoners of war playing two up for cigaretts.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8 x 6 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Scoullar, Leo Bryan, 1917-2010: Photographs / Photographs of allied prisoners-of-war in Libya, Italy and Germany, World War II
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print, 8 x 6 cm
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Dixon, H R, active 1942. Race day bookies at Campo PG 78/1 at Aquafredda, Italy - Photograph taken by H R Dixon. Scoullar, Leo Bryan, 1917-2010: Photographs. Ref: PAColl-1615-04. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22750754More information can be found in our terms of use.