Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DASEY2057
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Darge Photographic Company
Place made Australia: Victoria, Seymour
Date made c 16 September 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 2685 Private (Pte) Frederick Charles Knight. Originally from Cornwall, England, Pte Knight was a market gardener of no fixed address prior to enlistment and embarked with the 6th Reinforcements, 24 Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 27 October 1915. He later transferred to the 7th Battalion and was posted as missing in action. A subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 18 August 1916 aged 24. He remains were subsequently recovered and interred in the Pozieres British Cemetery, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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.

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