Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA16364
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 8 September 1916
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 6581 Private (Pte) Joseph Theodore Sleep. A labourer from Moonta Mines, SA prior to enlistment, Pte Sleep embarked with the 21st Reinforcements, 5th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 2 October 1916. On 10 May 1917 he was killed in action in France and having no known grave, is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. It was later revealed that he was aged 17 at the time. 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 DA16365.

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