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Album of photos of WW1 prisoners at Liverpool Camp, NSW


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I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before but the NAA has scanned an album of photos of WW1 prisoners at Liverpool Camp, NSW. There are about 5,970 prisoners' photos in total. The Series is D3597:

Title: Album of identification photographs of enemy aliens (civilian and prisoner of war) interned at Liverpool Camp, NSW during World War I (with index).

Index of names A to L
http://recordsearch....ne.asp?B=332682

Index of names M to Z
http://recordsearch....e.asp?B=7075608

Whole Album (652 pages) - prisoner numbers only, no names.
http://recordsearch....ne.asp?B=854143

You can also search for a name in series D3597 for individual photos, which seem to be a slightly higher res (the prisoner number is also the Control Symbol, so you can also search on that to locate an individual).

To help people locate these prisoners, I extracted names and numbers from the NAA titles and sorted them alphabetically (see attached text file). A small number are unidentified.

regards,

Martin

NAA_D3597_List_of_prisoners_at_Liverpool_Camp_NSW_in_WW1.txt

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Ken.

I think the majority would have been civilian internees from Australia and some other countries, islands, etc. but some were German soldiers, reservists and sailors from, for example, the taking of German New Guinea by the ANMEF at the start of the war.

For example, Ewald Wilhelm Reuschel (859) was a Petty Officer on SMS Planet (scuttled by the Germans off Yap Island in 1914) and there were probably German sailors from the sloop SMS KOMET (57 crew), which was captured and became HMAS UNA. Charles von Klewitz (4626) was probably a German officer and there were others. There was a small German force in New Guinea when it was captured.

More details of Australian internees and prisoners in WW1 can be found in the following document:

List of prisoners of War Captured and Interned in Australia (Showing Dates of Repatriation, Release etc)

http://recordsearch....ne.asp?B=395666

Unfortunately it doesn't note whether civilian or military, but it does give nationality, age, when and where interned and repatriation details (date and ship name).

regards,

Martin

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From NAA Series D3597 - A list of names and prisoner numbers of enemy aliens (civilian and prisoner of war) interned at Liverpool Camp, NSW, during World War I. The numbers correspond to identification photographs of the prisoners, which are available in the NAA RecordSearch under this series.

http://recordsearch....asicSearch.aspx

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Ok, I've just realised this may not be the appropiate forum, given that most were internees not prisoners of war (hence your question, Ken). I can delete and move to say the Other forum on this site?

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Hi

I have found your information interesting, I have a diary of Alfred Seiber 3602 regarding Tsingtao Bay. He was interened in Singapore and found his way to Liverpool in 1916, I am looking for more information on him. Would I find a photograph of him on the NAA site, I am not good at looking this up. Can you get them online or do I have to go to the library? thank you

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I have found the photograph of Alfred Sieber symbol no 3602. Can anyone advise me how to find the symbol numbers of the "Crew of the Emden" interned in 1914 , I have the list from the NAA which shows their last names interned at Liverpool. I have searched D3579 but would like to find some photographs to go with my research particularly Hueber, Dr K Wagner, Karl Rosner as an example. Any help would be great, thank you, Julie.

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Hi Julie.



The following NAA document has two lists (one for each transport - one hand-written, the other typed) of prisoners from the Emden. I don't know whether the list is complete or not but I couldn't find Hueber, Wagner or Rosner.



Title: Forwarding lists of prisoners of war ex "Emden" received on board the transport "Orvieto" and "Omrah" at Colombo on 16/11/1914 (11 pages)


From the Liverpool camp list, here are links to photos of 4 possibles for Huber and 4 for Wagner. I couldn't find the name Rosner or anything similar.


regards,


Martin




5395 HUBER, Carl



818 HUBER, Georg



3679 HUBER, Josef



754 HUBER, Wilhelm



Note: There is also:

5537 HUEBLER, Karl

2482 HUEBNER, Karl

46 HUEBNER, Otto


3237 WAGNER, Karl



613 WAGNER, Karl



288 WAGNER, Karl



914 WAGNER, Kilian

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The following may be of interest. I previously located a number of pages of a sectional view of the Emden on the NAA site and stitched them together to form one image of the ship. If you download it and zoom in, the image is quite detailed.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BxlGEUmD-tydY1pCZDhDV2VENmM&usp=sharing

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Martin

Thank you so much for the information, the ship model is great!

I have been researching the crew list and have items that I can now put a picture to. It seems that the crew of the emden photographs on NAA range in approximately the 700 range. 740, 754, 769 I have matched with items I have from these men.

k Wagner 613 is probably my best bet, the information I have is that he was a doctor?

Do you know if or how I can further research these photographs with more information about them, re: rank or class through the NAA?

Thank you for your help

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I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before but the NAA has scanned an album of photos of WW1 prisoners at Liverpool Camp, NSW. There are about 5,970 prisoners' photos in total. The Series is D3597:

Title: Album of identification photographs of enemy aliens (civilian and prisoner of war) interned at Liverpool Camp, NSW during World War I (with index).

Index of names A to L

http://recordsearch....ne.asp?B=332682

Index of names M to Z

http://recordsearch....e.asp?B=7075608

Whole Album (652 pages) - prisoner numbers only, no names.

http://recordsearch....ne.asp?B=854143

You can also search for a name in series D3597 for individual photos, which seem to be a slightly higher res (the prisoner number is also the Control Symbol, so you can also search on that to locate an individual).

To help people locate these prisoners, I extracted names and numbers from the NAA titles and sorted them alphabetically (see attached text file). A small number are unidentified.

regards,

Martin

Thank you for your sourcing and reporting this resource.

I can add my grandfathers name to the numbered photographs: 693 Marko Matulovic(h) ref 5/3638 and report that most of the prisoners with the surname Curac(h) were related to him at least by marriage.

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