Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of a group of five signallers. Identified left to right are: 2217 Private (Pte) Charles Samuel Kyle, 15th Battalion; unidentified; 15 Pte James Daniel Byrne, 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment; 31 Pte (later Lieutenant) Joseph McElligott, 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment; unidentified. Pte Kyle, of Rockhampton, Qld, enlisted on 4 February 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Karoola on 12 June 1915. In August 1915 he was wounded at Gallipoli. On 12 January 1918 he was promoted to Lance Corporal and he returned to Australia on 28 March 1919. Pte Byrne, of Gympie, Qld, enlisted on 8 January 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Borda on 16 June 1915. During 1916 he served with the Postal Corps. In 1918 he was wounded and gassed while serving as a Corporal with the 1st Machine Gun Battalion. He returned to Australia on 21 March 1919. Pte McElligott, of Millaa Millaa, Qld, spent two months in 1914 with the 2nd Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF). He enlisted in the AIF on 29 December 1914 and embarked from Brisbane aboard HMAT Medic on 2 June 1915. On 29 August 1915 he transferred to the 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment. On 30 October 1917 he was commissioned and served as a Lieutenant. He later received training in aerial observation and joined the Australian Flying Corps. At the beginning of 1918 he became a prisoner of war in Turkey and was repatriated in November of 1918. He returned to Australia on 5 August 1919.