Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA10861
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 three soldiers. One is known to be 2474 Private (Pte) John Lawrence Fitzgerald, 5th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion, of Gippsland, Vic. Pte Fitzgerald enlisted on 15 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Osterley on 29 September 1915. On 19 July 1916, whilst serving with the 59th Battalion, he was killed in action at Fleurbaix, France. His brother, 3312 Lance Corporal Daniel Fitzgerald, 59th Battalion, was wounded at Polygon Wood, Belgium, and died on 5 October 1917.

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