Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA09852
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 26 August 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 3147 Private (Pte) William Gregory Sharp, 10th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion, of Corindhap, Vic. Pte Sharp, aged eighteen years, enlisted on 26 July 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Osterley in Melbourne on 29 September 1915. He died of disease in Heliopolis Hospital, Cairo, Egypt, on 23 November 1915.

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