Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA12960
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 13 December 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 4231 Private (Pte) Wesley Clarence Jolly. A timber worker from Sebastopol, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Jolly embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He later transferred to the 31st Battalion and on 21 July 1916, aged19, he was killed in action near Fleurbaix in the Fromelles area of France and was buried in the Eaton Hall Military Cemetery. His remains were later exhumed and re-interred in the Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France. Two brothers, 2033 Pte Albert Thomas Jolly and 716 Pte George Hector Jolly also served. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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.

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