Accession Number | DA08600 |
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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 4 May 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Description
Studio portrait of 2101 Private (Pte) Jack Antonio, 6th Battalion, of Taradale, Vic. Pte Antonio enlisted on 12 May 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Wandilla on 17 June 1915. On 28 September he was killed in action at Shrapnel Valley on the Gallipoli Peninsula.