Salvador Slattery brought this photograph in to Limerick City Archives as he had missed the World War 1 roadshow held by the National Library in the Hunt Musuem. His uncle Michael Fitzgerald is pictured second from the left and was a gunner with the British Army. He is pictured with two other prisoners of war wearing a very formal prisoner of war uniform.Michael Fitzgerlad was from 2 Leila Place, Limerick City and Salvador says that although he died before Salvador was old enough to know him he survived the war and died with a burst appendix when Salvador was very young || Photograph of Michael Fitzgerald Limerick, in a German prisoner of war camp

Photo of my father, Captain Neil Collins, on his bed at Krefeld prisoner of war camp in Germany.

My father, Captain Neil Collins of the 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment, arrived at Zeebrugge on 6th October 1914 and was captured by the German Army between Veldhock and Zonnebeke on 21st October 1914 after only just over two weeks in active service. He was taken to prisoner of war camp in Germany and, I believe he was at five different camps during the course of the war. The only three I have details for are Krefeld, Neunkirchen and Schwarmstedt. He attempted to escape on one occasion, but was recaptured and taken to another camp. || Pictures of my father, Captain Neil Collins of the 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and his comrades at the prisoner of war camps in Krefeld and Schwarmstedt, Germany, together with departure papers when he was sent to Holland at the beginning of 1918.