Accession Number | DASEY2490 |
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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 27 October 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 W R Pinsell, believed to be 4169 Private (Pte) William Robert Pinwell, 23rd Battalion from Coburg, Victoria. A 36 year old stationery clerk and messenger prior to enlisting on 16 June 1915, he embarked for overseas service with the 10th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 7 March 1916 aboard HMAT Wiltshire (A18). Following further training in England, he joined his battalion in Belgium in September 1916 and was made an Acting Corporal (A/Cpl). A/Cpl Pinwell was wounded in action on 3 May 1917 and received medical treatment in France before returning to his battalion one month later. He arrived back in Australia on 22 July 1919. 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.