Studio portrait of 4636 Private (Pte) Murdoch McLean. An electrician from Outtrim, Victoria prior ...

Studio portrait of 4636 Private (Pte) Murdoch McLean. An electrician from Outtrim, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte McLean embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles on 28 January 1916. Later transferring to the 59th Battalion he was posted as missing in action. A subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 19 July 1916, aged 20, and presumed buried in no man’s land. Following the Armistice his remains were recovered and re-interred in the “Y” Farm Military Cemetery, Bois-Grenier, Lille, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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 DA12776.

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