Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DASEY2490
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

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.