Accession Number | DA16301 |
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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 30 August 1916 |
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 6254 Private (Pte) Claude Arthur Butler, 12th Battalion and an unidentified soldier (positions unknown). A farmer from Nook, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Butler embarked with the 20th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Botanist on 24 August 1916. After arriving in England he became ill and, on 26 July 1917, aged 23, he died from tubercular peritonitis and was buried in the Durrington, Cemetery, Wiltshire, England. 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.