Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA10725
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Darge Photographic Company
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Broadmeadow, 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 possibly of 4909 Private (Pte) John James Simpson, 15th Reinforcements, 7th Battalion, of Hawthorn, Vic. Pte Simpson enlisted on 19 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. He was wounded whilst serving with the 60th Battalion at Fleurbaix, France, on 19 July 1916 and died on 1 August 1916.

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