Accession Number | DAOF023 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Glass original half plate negative |
Maker |
Darge Photographic Company |
Date made | c May 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
Portrait of Lieutenant E E Catani, A Company, 21st Battalion, probably, Second Lieutenant Enrico Ferdinando Catani. A Grazier from Glenvale via Kyneton, Victoria, prior to enlistment, Catani embarked with A Company, 21st Battalion, from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ulysses on 10 May 1915. He was killed in action near Pozieres, France, on 29 July 1916. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks. See also P11009.001.