Accession Number | DA10785 |
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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 2384 Private (Pte) Francis Charles Saxon, 5th Reinforcements, 22nd Battalion, of Croxton, Vic, aged 34. Pte Saxon enlisted on 12 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Osterley on 29 September 1915. He died of wounds on 27 July 1916 in France.