Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA13625
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 26 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 4820 Private (Pte) William Leonard Graystone, 15th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion, of Mildura, Vic (left) and 3827 Pte Arthur George Graham, 9th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion, of North Melbourne, Vic (right). Pte Graystone enlisted on 6 August 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. He returned to Australia on 1 May 1919 as a member of the 11th Field Artillery Brigade. Pte Graham enlisted on 4 December 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. He returned to Australia on 27 August 1917.