Accession Number | DA16091 |
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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 25 July 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 6281 Private (Pte) Frederick William Hinrichsen, 5th Battalion from Brighton, Victoria. A 21 year old motor engineer prior to enlisting on 8 April 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 20th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 11 September 1916 aboard HMAT Euripides (A14). Following further training in England, he joined the 5th Battalion on the Western Front on 22 December 1916 and served in both France and Belgium. Pte Hinrichsen was wounded in action on 27 April 1918 and died from his wounds later that same day. He is buried in the Casetre Military Cemetery, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the 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.