Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA08186
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Darge Photographic Company
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows
Date made c 20 April 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 1990 Private (Pte) Arthur Moore, 5th Battalion. Originally from Somersetshire, England, Pte Moore was a barman from Melbourne prior to enlistment and embarked with the 5th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Hororata on 17 April 1915. While serving at Gallipoli he was wounded in action and evacuated to King George’s Hospital, London, England. On 29 February 1916, aged 39, he succumbed to his wound and was buried in the Holy Trinity Churchyard, Chantry, Somerset, England. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the 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.