Accession Number | DA13918 |
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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 5 February 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 4782 Private (Pte) William Reid Fitton, 7th Battalion. A grocer from Heyfield, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Fitton embarked with the 15th Reinforcements aboard HMAT Wiltshire in Melbourne on 7 March 1916. After transferring to the 59th Battalion, he was killed in action on 19 July 1916 at Fleurbaix, France, aged 20, and was buried in the Aubers Ridge British Cemetery, France. 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.