Studio portrait of 4250 Private (Pte) Stanley Hirst Little. A clerk from Hawthorn, Victoria prior ...

Studio portrait of 4250 Private (Pte) Stanley Hirst Little. A clerk from Hawthorn, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Little embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Later transferring to the 46th Battalion he was hospitalised suffering from appendicitis. He was later hit in the stomach by shrapnel and was admitted to the No. 12 Field Ambulance. On 14 August 1916, aged 23, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Becourt Military Cemetery, Picardie, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a concession 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 DA13285