Accession Number | DA11902 |
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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 probably of 2772 Private (Pte) Frederick John Smith, 6th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion, of Nhill, Vic, aged 21 years. Pte Smith enlisted on 21 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ulysses on 27 October 1915. He died of wounds on 14 August 1916 at the Somme, France.