Accession Number | DACS0931 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative |
Maker |
Darge Photographic Company |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne |
Date made | c 14 June 1917 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Copy of portrait of a soldier for Eliza Heawood. The soldier is probably one the three sons of William and Eliza Heawood, of Lane's Tier, Ouse, Tasmania, who enlisted in the AIF. Two were killed in action. All three were labourers and embarked from Melbourne. 1217 Pte James Charles Heawood embarked with the 1st Reinforcements, 12th Battalion, aboard HMAT Themistocles (A72) on 22 December 1914. He was killed in action on 19 May 1915 at Gallipoli. 1044 Private (Pte) Edward Oscar Heawood embarked with G Company, 15th Battalion, aboard HMAT Ceramic (A40) on 22 December 1914. He was killed in action in France on 8 August 1916. 1529 Pte William John Joseph Heawood embarked with the 2nd Reinforcements, 12th Battalion, aboard HMAT Clan Macgillivray (A46) on 2 February 1915. During his service he was wounded in action three times. He returned to Australia on 12 May 1918. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.