British POWs at Courtrai
Description:
A group of British and French prisoners pose for a photograph at a prisoner collection center in Courtrai, Belgium. The photograph included Lt. Pat O'Brien, an American who served as a pilot with the Royal Flying Corps, who was shot down behind enemy lines (he is standing in the center of the photograph behind the seated German guard). O'Brien paid a German guard a Mark for the photograph.
Institution:
Western Michigan University Libraries
Rights:
No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: Pat O’Brien, Outwitting the Hun. My Escape from a German Prison Camp, London: Heinemann, 1918, 70B.
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text