Accession Number | DA10999 |
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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 October 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 3301 Private (Pte) Henry William Cull (left) and an unidentified soldier. Originally from Stratford, Essex, England, Pte Cull was a farm labourer of no fixed address and embarked with the 11th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 11 October 1915. Later wounded in the right leg he was evacuated to England where, due to the severity of the wound, his leg was amputated. He elected to be discharged in England and on 18 May 1917 was discharged in London as being medically unfit for further military service. 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.