Accession Number | DACS0297 |
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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 |
Date made | c June 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
Portrait of F Rowe copied for the Cobram Honour Roll. The soldier is probably 241 Private (Pte) Francis George Rowe, a labourer from Koonoomoo via Cobram, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Pte Rowe embarked from Melbourne with A Company, 22nd Battalion, aboard HMAT Ulysses (A38) on 10 May 1915. During his service Rowe was promoted to Lance Corporal. He returned to Australia on 12 December 1918. 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.