Accession Number | DA14580 |
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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 26 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 3942 Sapper (Spr) Alfred Baldwin, No.5 Tunnelling Company. A labourer from Violet Town, Victoria prior to enlistment, Spr Baldwin embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 25 April 1916. After being gassed he was evacuated to England and, due to the severity of the gas poisoning, returned to Australia on 12 May 1918 and was medically discharged. 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.