Accession Number | DAAV00044A |
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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, Point Cook |
Date made | c 17 October 1916 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Portrait of Captain (Capt) Henry Haigh Storrer, Australian Flying Corps. An accountant from Geelong, Victoria, prior to enlistment, Capt Storrer embarked with Headquaters, No. 2 Squadron from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ulysses (A38) on 25 October 1916. He was killed in action in France on 2 December 1917, aged 28. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks. (See also DAD0059).