Accession Number | DA11420 |
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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 October 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
Description
Studio portrait of 1126 Private (Pte) James Henry Carter, C Company, 31st Battalion, of Melbourne, Vic (originally of Birmingham, England). Pte Carter enlisted on 27 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard either HMAT Bakara on 5 November 1915 or HMAT Wandilla on 9 November 1915. He later served as a sergeant. He died of wounds on 14 March 1917 at Bapaume, France.