Accession Number | DA10685 |
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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
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Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Description
Studio portrait of 3081 Private (Pte) John William Brewitt, 10th Reinforcements, 6th Battalion, of Sassafras, Vic (originally of Nottinghamshire, England). Pte Brewitt enlisted on 8 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Osterley on 29 September 1915. He was killed in action on 20 September 1917 in France.