Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA13442
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Darge Photographic Company
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows
Date made 15 January 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

ortrait of 3809 Private (Pte) James Daws. An engine driver from Cranbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Daws embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. Later suffering from trench feet he was invalided to hospital. After recovering he re-joined his battalion and was re-admitted to hospital suffering from mumps. Later re-joining his unit he was appointed as Lewis machine gunner and was subsequently posted as wounded and missing in action at Bullecourt. It was later determined that he had been killed in action on 3 May 1917, aged 20. 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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