Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA11225
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 3448 Private (Pte) Albert Arthur Olley, 11th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion, of Ascotvale, Vic. Pte Olley enlisted on 16 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Nestor on 11 October 1915. He was transferred to the 12th Machine Gun Battalion on 29 August 1916 and was killed in action, in France on 25 November 1916.

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