Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DACS0263
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Darge Photographic Company
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made c June 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

Portrait of F T Farrall copied for the Cobram Honour Roll. The soldier is probably 1647 Private (Pte) Frederick Theodore Farrall, born at Cobram, and a farm hand from Ganmain , NSW, prior to enlistment. Pte Farrall embarked from Sydney with the 2nd Reinforcements, 55th Battalion, aboard HMAT Ceramic (A40) on 14 April 1916. He returned to Australia on 2 June 1919. During the First World War the Cobram and District Soldiers Fund initiated a project to create a Cobram Honour Roll. It was to include portraits of servicemen who had links to the Cobram area. The Fund arranged for portraits to be copied by the Darge Photographic Company at its Collins Street Studio, Melbourne. Around 100 copy prints were supplied by the Darge company but it is not known if the roll was ever constructed. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased 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.

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