Accession Number | DA15897 |
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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 13 July 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 1825 Private (Pte) Arthur Ernest Dower, 38th Battalion. A tailor from Long Gully, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Dower embarked with the 2nd Reinforcements from Melbourne on RMS Orontes on 16 August 1916. Later wounded at Mont St Quentin, he succumbed to his wounds on 3 October 1918, aged 25, and was buried in the Tincourt New British Cemetery, France. 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.