Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA13688
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 31 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 2428 Private (Pte) George Collolo Riley, 4th Reinforcements, 2nd Pioneer Battalion, of Edenhope via Hamilton, Vic and an unidentified soldier. Pte Riley enlisted on 24 September 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Wandilla on 6 June 1916. On 19 September 1917 he was killed in action at Zillebeke in Belgium.

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