Accession Number | DA10945 |
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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 September 1915 |
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 3305 Private (Pte) Gordon Edmund Ewart, 8th Battalion. A railways clerk from Montrose, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Ewart embarked with the 11th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Nestor on 11 October 1915. After transferring to the 58th Battalion, he was killed in action on 1 October 1918 at Bullecourt, France, aged 20, and was buried in the Bellicourt British Cemetery. 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. See also DA10946.