Accession Number | DA11626 |
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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 This item is in the Public Domain |
Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Description
Studio portrait of 719 Private (Pte) Reginald Alexander Bean, C Company, 31st Battalion, of Moonee Ponds, Vic. Pte Bean enlisted on 22 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Wandilla on 9 November 1915. He was killed in action on 21 July 1916 at Fleurbaix, France.
This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative.