Accession Number | DA09880 |
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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 August 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Description
Studio portrait of 2404 Private (Pte) Raymond Alfred Wing, of Gunns Plains, Tas. Pte Wing first enlisted on 15 December 1914 and embarked from Melbourne on 2 February 1915 aboard HMAT Clan McGillivray as a member of the 2nd Reinforcements, 15th Battalion. He boarded SS Sontay at Colombo on 9 March 1915 and returned to Melbourne medically unfit and was discharged on 30 March 1915. Pte Wing then re-enlisted on 2 October 1916, embarking from Melbourne aboard HMAT Port Melbourne on 21 October 1916 as a member of the 40th Battalion. He returned to Australia on 24 August 1918.