Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA09631
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 June 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 2021 Private (Pte) Edgar Charles Sampson, 3rd Reinforcements, 18th Battalion, of Bondi, NSW. Pte Sampson, aged forty three years, enlisted on 11 May 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Runic in Sydney on 9 August 1915. On 13 July 1917 he transferred to the 67th Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps (later renamed No 1 Squadron). He returned to Australia on 2 August 1919.

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