Accession Number | DAOD0498 |
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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 January 1915 |
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
Portrait of Hambley on horseback, probably 511 Driver (Dvr) Harold Hambly, a mechanic from Lithgow, NSW, prior to enlistment. Dvr Hambly embarked from Melbourne with the 2nd Signal Troop, 2nd Light Horse, aboard HMAT Borda (A32) on 22 October 1914. Dvr Hambly returned to Australia on 15 August 1915, suffering from bronchitis and tuberculosis. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.