Photo may show Casement in POW camp

What is being described as an ‘amazing’ photograph of Roger Casement surfaced in Limerick from a collection of war memorabilia.

The photo was one of hundreds of items brought to a First World War roadshow organised by the National Library in conjunction with the Hunt Museum. Retired train driver Tony O’Brien, from Daly Avenue, Janesboro, had the picture with other items, which belonged to his late father Thomas Patrick O’Brien, who fought with the Munster Fusiliers.

Mr O’Brien, aged 77, said: “My father was captured on August 28, 1914, and spent the rest of the war at Limburg prisoner-of-war camp near Frankfurt. Among the items he brought back with him was a photograph taken in the camp and it shows a bearded man dressed in a white suit meeting with the prisoners. Cameras started to become popular and the Germans encouraged the prisoners to send home photos to show how well they were being treated.