| Accession Number | DA08577 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Glass original half plate negative |
| Maker |
Darge Photographic Company |
| Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows |
| Date made | 5 May 1915 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Description
W. J Webster. [Register caption]
Studio portrait of 1196 Private (Pte) Walter James Webster, 22nd Battalion, of Mildura, Vic. Pte Webster enlisted on 14 April 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Ulysses on 8 May 1915. He was killed in action on 27 November 1915 at Shrapnel Valley, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey.
This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks