Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA11044
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 5574 Private (Pte) George Austin Ellis, 14th Reinforcements, 1st Field Company Engineers, of Newtown, NSW (originally of Bradford, Yorkshire, England). Pte Ellis enlisted on 20 September 1915 and embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Runic on 20 January 1916. On 9 January 1918 he transferred to the 2nd Field Company Engineers and returned to Australia on 18 October 1919 with the 1st Field Squadron.

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