Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DACS0332
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Darge Photographic Company
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made c 28 June 1916
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 Roy Anderson copied for the Cobram Honour Roll. The soldier is 2555 Private (Pte) Roy Anderson, a hairdresser from Cobram, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Pte Anderson embarked from Melbourne with the 8th Reinforcements, 7th Battalion, aboard HMAT Anchises (A68) on 26 August 1915. During his service Anderson achieved the rank of Lieutenant. In April 1918 he received gunshot wounds to the head and back. He partially recovered and returned to Australia on 24 August 1918. Roy Anderson died of complications from his wounds at the Caulfield Military Hospital, Melbourne, on 14 January 1919. He was buried in Cobram Cemetery. (See also H15355 and DACS0250.) 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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