Accession Number | DA13705 |
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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 30 January 1916 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
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.