Accession Number | DA13643 |
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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 24 January 1916 |
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
Studio portrait of 3224 Private (Pte) Victor Clarence Dyer, 56th Battalion. A fireman from Waverley, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Dyer embarked with the 7th Reinforcements, 30th Battalion from Sydney aboard HMAT Hororata on 2 May 1916. On 7 July 1918 he died at Vignacourt in the Somme area of France as a result of wounds sustained during the Battle of Hamel and was buried in the Vignacourt British Cemetery. 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.