Accession Number | DA09486 |
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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 June 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 1749 Private (Pte) Sidney Watkins Madigan, 2nd Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion, of Chewton, Vic. Pte Madigan enlisted on 15 May 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Demosthenes on 16 July 1915. He was killed in action on 9 October 1917 at Passchendaele in Belgium.