Accession Number | DA10679 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Glass original half plate negative |
Maker |
Darge Photographic Company |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows |
Date made | c September 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Studio portrait of 2277 Private (Pte) Arthur Fisher, 22nd Battalion. A native of Rochdale, England, Pte Fisher was a farmer from Caulfield, Vic prior to enlistment. He embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Hororata on 27 September 1915. On 8 October 1917, aged 23, he died of wounds received in action at Zonnebeke, Belgium and was buried in the St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession 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.