Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA14964
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 24 April 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 1751 Private Albert Woolhouse, 59th Battalion, of Melbourne, Victoria (originally of Geraldton, WA). A baker prior to enlistment, he embarked from Melbourne with the 2nd Reinforcements on 4 May 1916 on HMAT Port Lincoln (A17). He was killed in action on 26 September 1917 and has no known grave; he is memorialised on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium. His father, 1741 Private John Vernon Woolhouse also served in the AIF and died of disease on 4 May 1916 in 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 1930's, 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.

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