Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA13591
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 24 January 1916
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 portrait of 4532 Private (Pte) Arthur Leslie Lodge, 14th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion, of Tunbridge, Tas. Pte Lodge enlisted on 8 November 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Warilda in Melbourne on 8 February 1916. On 22 April 1917 he was appointed as a gunner and on 28 April 1917 he transferred to the 4th Heavy and Medium Light Trench Mortar Battery. He was killed in action in France, on 3 May 1917, having previously been reported as missing in action. His death is commemorated at the Villers Bretonneux Memorial in France.

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