Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA09120
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 May 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 group portrait of four men and five women. One of the two servicemen is identified as 581 Sergeant (Sgt) Walter King, 23rd Battalion, of Melbourne, Vic, and originally of North London, England. Sgt King enlisted on 23 February 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Euripides on 10 May 1915. He was killed in action on 22 March 1918 in Belgium.

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