Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Soldiers of the 13th Light Horse provide the Wedding Guard for John Bagot and his new wife, Eileen Dubois Ive, as they walk, from the tent where they have married, under the crossed rifles with bayonets fixed. The groom is Second Lieutenant John Frederick Bagot who embarked on 12 May 1915 and served with the 13th Light Horse Regiment. Bagot trained in South Australia for seven months with the 9th Light Horse before transferring to the Light Horse Depot at Broadmeadows. He passed his examination for commissioning as a 2nd lieutenant and was appointed to this rank on 24 March 1915. In November 1917 he was promoted in the field to the rank of Captain. He returned to Australia in February 1919.