Accession Number | DA11904 |
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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
Description
Studio portrait of 2559 Private (Pte) William Blackler Atkins, 6th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion, of Melbourne, Vic, aged 43 years. Pte Atkins enlisted on 8 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ulysses on 27 October 1915. He died of pneumonia on 11 February 1916 in Egypt.