Studio portrait of 3819 Private (Pte) Clark Mansfield Joy. A salesman from Tungamah, Victoria ...

Studio portrait of 3819 Private (Pte) Clark Mansfield Joy. A salesman from Tungamah, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Joy embarked from Melbourne with the 12th Reinforcements, 6th Battalion on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. Later wounded in the chest and abdomen near Pozieres, France, he was admitted to the 4th Casualty Clearing Station. On 20 August 1916, aged 26 he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Puchevillers British Cemetery, France. 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. See also DA12446.