Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA18657
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 4 September 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 3276 Private (Pte) Roy Caddaye and Pte Lawrence Gilbert Devitt (positions unknown). Pte Caddaye, a labourer from Lakes Entrance, Victoria prior to enlistment, embarked with the 8th Reinforcements, 38th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 22 December 1917. Later suffering from neuritis he was admitted to hospital. Subsequently suffering from poliomyelitis he returned to Australia on 13 December 1918 and was medically discharged. Pte Devitt, a cleaner also from Lakes Entrance, Victoria, was due to embark with the 20th Reinforcements, 22nd Battalion but was diagnosed as suffering from tachycardia and was medically discharged on 26 September 1917. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a concession 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.

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