Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA12914
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 22 December 1915
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 4182 Private (Pte) Thomas Buick Ellis. Originally from Dundee, Scotland, Pte Ellis was a draughtsman from Williamstown, Victoria prior to enlistment and embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 6th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He later transferred to the 1st Pioneer Battalion where he was promoted to Lance Corporal. Subsequently receiving multiple gunshot wounds he was evacuated to hospital. On 20 December 1916, aged 40, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Dartmoor Cemetery, Picardie, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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.

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