Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA10309
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 September 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 2215 Private (Pte) Stanley Sylvester Welsh, 4th Reinforcements, A Company, 24th Battalion, of Ballarat East, Vic. Pte Welsh enlisted on 15 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Hororata on 27 September 1915. He was wounded at Pozieres and returned to his unit in France after nine months. Pte Welsh was promoted to corporal the evening before going into battle. He was killed in action on 4 October 1917 at Passchendaele, Belgium.

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