Accession Number | DASEY1832 |
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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 3 September 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Studio portrait of Stillman A R, believed to be 3269 Private (Pte) Arthur Robert Stillman, 22nd Battalion from Bonnie Doon, Victoria. A 21 year old labourer prior to enlisting on 7 July 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 7th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 26 November 1915 aboard HMAT Commonwealth (A73). After arriving in Egypt, he transferred to the 7th Battalion and proceeded to France with them in March 1916. Pte Stillman was killed in action on 20 September 1917 at Zillebeke, Belgium and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres, Belgium with others who have no known grave. His 26 year old brother, 3270 Pte William Edward Stillman, enlisted a week after Arthur and embarked in the same group. He was taken ill and returned to Australia on 12 April 1917 and discharged medically unfit for further service. 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.