Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA13920
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 5 February 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 4951 Private (Pte) Sydney Vivian Wade, 15th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion, of Ballarat East, Vic. Pte Wade enlisted on 18 December 1915, claiming to be 18 years old. He embarked aboard HMAT Wiltshire in Melbourne on 7 March 1916. He was serving with the 59th Battalion in France when he was wounded in action. He died of wounds at Calais on 26 July 1916, aged 17 years and ten months.

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