Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait probably of 990 Private (Pte) Alfred Arthur Stanley (right), a carpenter from Melbourne, Victoria (originally from Hastings, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand) and 975 Pte Nesbitt Henry (Ned) Lumsden (left), a horse-breaker and renowned horseman from Mortlake, Victoria (originally from Welllington, New Zealand). The two soldiers are shaking hands and performing the formal Maori greeting known as the hongi: where two people press their noses and foreheads together. Privates Stanley and Lumsden embarked from Melbourne with the 6th Reinforcements, 8th Light Horse, aboard HMAT Uganda on 21 June 1915. Pte Stanley returned to Australia on 3 July 1919. According to his service record, Pte Lumsden was aged forty four years on enlistment. However he had put his age down from his actual age of between 55 and 57. Pte Lumsden returned to Australia on 29 April 1919. (See DA09614 for another image of Pte Stanley. See DA09667 and DA09668 for other images of Pte Lumsden.) (Other recorded spellings of Pte Lumsden’s first name include Nesbit, Nisbet and Nisbett.)