Accession Number | DA15890 |
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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 10 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 6642 Private Percival William Smith, 5th Battalion. A clerk from Mildura, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Smith embarked with the 21st Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 2 October 1916. Whilst serving in France it was discovered that he was underage and he returned to England to take up duties with the 3rd Army General Hospital. He returned to Australia on 16 January 1919. 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.