Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DACS0921
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Darge Photographic Company
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made c June 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait of Gunner H McInroy copied for the Cobram Honour Roll. The soldier is probably 90 Driver (Dvr) Herbert McInroy, a labourer from Queenstown, Tasmania. McInroy had previously lived in Cobram, Victoria. He embarked from Hobart, Tasmania, with the Machine Gun Section, 40th Battalion, aboard HMAT Berrima (A35) on 1 July 1916. During his service McInroy was promoted to Sergeant, wounded three times and awarded the Military Medal (MM) for "consistently good work" displaying "splendid qualities of leadership and resource". "By his conduct under fire he has set a spendid example of courage and fearlessness to his men". He returned to Australia on 6 January 1918. His brother John, half brother Charles Boundy McInroy and uncle John Morris McInroy also served with AIF. During the First World War the Cobram and District Soldiers Fund initiated a project to create a Cobram Honour Roll. It was to include portraits of servicemen who had links to the Cobram area. The Fund arranged for portraits to be copied by the Darge Photographic Company at its Collins Street Studio, Melbourne. Around 100 copy prints were supplied by the Darge company but it is not known if the roll was ever constructed. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.

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