Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA10177
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 September 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 4002 Private (Pte) Leslie George Ellis, 9th Reinforcements, 22nd Battalion, of Mount Duneed via Geelong, Vic. Pte Ellis enlisted on 16 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. He later served as a sergeant and was killed in action on 18 August 1918 and is buried at Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France.

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