Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA10996
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 October 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 1200 Private (Pte) Sydney Albert Olley, D Company, 29th Battalion, of Richmond, Vic. Pte Olley enlisted on 12 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ascanius on 10 November 1915. He was killed in action on 24 November 1916 at Fleurbaix, France, aged 18 years.

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