Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA13705
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 30 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 4455 Acting Lance Sergeant (A/LSgt) Robert Castle, 14th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion, of Koroit, Vic (formerly of Cumberland, England). A/LSgt Castle enlisted on 4 August 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Ballarat in Melbourne on 18 February 1916. He was serving as a private with the 46th Battalion when he died of wounds in France on 15 February 1917.