Accession Number | DA14765 |
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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 30 March 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 5127 Private (Pte) Alfred George Johnson, 8th Battalion. A labourer from Ararat, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Johnson embarked with the 16th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Suffolk on 1 April 1916. Later suffering from trench feet he was evacuated to England and served briefly with the 67th Battalion before rejoining his original unit in France. Subsequently wounded in action and then gassed, he returned to Australia on 18 December 1918. 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.