Accession Number | DA16446 |
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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 20 August 1916 |
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 2691 Private (Pte) Frederick James Massey. A farmer from Caulfield, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Massey embarked with the 6th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 2 October 1916. Later wounded in action on two separate occasions, he returned to Australia on 24 July 1919. 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. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative. See also DA16447 & DA16448.