Accession Number | DA15797 |
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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 1 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 2249 Private (Pte) William Charles Snell, 60th Battalion from Eaglehawk, Victoria. A 39 year old labourer prior to enlisting on 5 April 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 1 August 1916 aboard HMAT Orsova. Shortly after arriving in England, he took ill and was hospitalized on several occasions. Pte Snell died of tuberculosis on 16 March 1917 at the Military Hospital at Fovant, England and is buried in the Compton Chamberlyne Cemetery, Fovant, Wiltshire. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.