Studio portrait of 4311 Private (Pte) Edward John Stewart. Also known as John Edward Stewart, Pte ...

Studio portrait of 4311 Private (Pte) Edward John Stewart. Also known as John Edward Stewart, Pte Stewart was a railway employee from Ballarat, Victoria prior to enlistment and embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He was later promoted to Lance Corporal and transferred to the Anzac Light Railways. He was later evacuated to England suffering from an accidently received crushed foot. Following his recovery he joined the 17th Australian Light Railway Operating Company (ALROC), and then the 3rd ALROC. On 22 Apr 1918 he was killed in action near Ypres and was buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative. See also DA12239 & DA12240.