Accession Number | DASEY1554 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Glass original half plate negative |
Maker |
Darge Photographic Company |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Seymour |
Date made | c 25 August 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
Studio portrait of 4001 Private (Pte) James McGregor, 6th Battalion. A farmer from North Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte McGregor embarked with the 12th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. Later transferring to the 58th Battalion he was wounded in action on two separate occasions. Following his promotion to Corporal he was killed in action on 24 April 1918 and was buried in the Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the 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.