Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA08081
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 April 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 1804 Private (Pte) Alfred Ernest Phillips, 7th Battalion. A labourer from North Richmond, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Phillips embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 14 April 1915. After being wounded in action at Gallipoli, he transferred to the 59th Battalion where, on 19 July 1916, aged 32, he was killed in action at Fleurbaix, France and is commemorated on the VC Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France. His brother 1743 Pte Edwin John Phillips, 60th Battalion was killed on the same day. 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.

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