Accession Number | DA10880 |
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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
Description
Studio portrait of 3120 Private (Pte) Christopher James McNamara, 10th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion, of Cunninghame, Vic, aged 27. Pte McNamara enlisted on 20 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Osterley on 29 September 1915. He was later transferred to the 59th Battalion where he served as a lance corporal. He was killed in action on 19 July 1916 in France.