Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA16297
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 30 August 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 D Cameron, believed to be 6259 Private (Pte) Donald Leslie George Cameron, 12th Battalion from Mangana, Tasmania. A 23 year old miner prior to enlisting on 29 May 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 20th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 24 August 1916 aboard HMAT Botanist (A59). Following further training in England, he proceeded to France where he joined the 12th Battalion on 1 May 1917. Over the next five months he spent quite some time in hospital with influenza and bronchitis. In November 1917 Pte Cameron was transferred to England for medical treatment and then returned to Australia to be discharged on 3 May 1918 as medically unfit for further service. 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.

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