Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA13047
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 12 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 4163 Private (Pte) David Craig. A labourer from Steiglitz, Victoria prior to Enlistment, Pte Craig embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 14th battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He was later hospitalised suffering from a bomb wound to his left hand. After re-joining his battalion he was re-admitted to hospital suffering from influenza. He was later reported as missing in action and a subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 11 April 1917 at Bullecourt aged 29. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. 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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