Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Place Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Corbie Albert Area, Heilly
Accession Number DA09981
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 9028 Private (Pte) John Walter Charles Profitt, 6th Field Ambulance, Australian Medical Corps. A school teacher from Geelong, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Profitt embarked with the 9th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles on 28 January 1916. Following his promotion to Lance Corporal he died of wounds received in action, aged 22 and was buried in the Heilly Station Cemetery Mericourt-D'Abbe, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative.