Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA09732
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 13 July 1915
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 4624 Private (Pte) Gerald Leslie Stewart, 7th Reinforcements, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, of North Sydney, NSW. Pte Stewart enlisted on 24 March 1915 and embarked aboard RMS Persia in Sydney on 10 August 1915. He was killed in action on 14 November 1916 at Flers, France. His death is commemorated at the Villers Bretonneux Memorial in France. Note he is holding a riding crop behind his back and wearing a slouch hat. See also DA09732A.