Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA13540
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 23 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

Studio portrait of Sergeant (Sgt) William John Paterson. A technical school teacher from Warrnambool, Victoria prior to enlistment, Sgt Paterson served with the 14th Depot Battalion at Ballarat before embarking with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant with the 4th Reinforcements, 39th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Port Lincoln on 20 October 1916. Later promoted to Lieutenant he was admitted to hospital suffering from pericarditis. Subsequently diagnosed as suffering from aortic incompetence he was invalided to England and returned to Australia on 22 August 1918. 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. See also DA13539.

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