Photo Album (Gottingen/Gottengen)

Photo Album (Gottingen/Gottengen)

Photo album, cover is 4.75″ x 7″, book is 2″ thick. Brown paper cover with darker markings, brown paper inside, bound with green yarn. Writing on inside cover states “91 photos in book” and that it is “prop. of Sjt AP Dunbar Machine Gun Sec. 15th Can Int Batt Gottingen  — Show Camp. All’neutrals shown this camp to prove Hun “Kultur””. Sticker on inside cover reads “H. Lange / Göttingen.”

Card on first page reads: “After 50 years: This album of Gottengen (German) prisoner’s of war “show” camp 1915 donated to 48th Highlanders Ass’n Museum by ex. Sgt. A. P. Dunbar D. C. M. (Lite Member) Toronto, June 1965.”

Book contains photos and postcards of the Gottingen camp, prisoners of various nationalities inside, and some Canadian soldiers; plays, churches, and boxing matches inside the camp are also pictured.

 

Classification
Images
Era
1914 – 1919 (WW 1)
Location of artifact
Tower, Tower Numbered location
Associated place
Gottingen Camp, Germany
Associated name(s)
Sgt. A. P. Dunbar

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