Accession Number | DA09631 |
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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 This item is in the Public Domain |
Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
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.