Accession Number | DA15548 |
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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 8 June 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 5398 Private (Pte) Harry James Lamprell, 5th Battalion. A driver from Wonthaggi, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Lamprell embarked with the 18th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ayrshire on 3 July 1916. Later transferring to the 14th Battalion with the service number of 5398A, he was awarded the Military Medal "For conspicuous bravery...in the attack of the Hindenburg Line. He was the only one left of his bombing section but continued to throw his bombs and held the enemy back for a considerable time." Later promoted to Lance Corporal he was wounded in action and on 8th August 1918, aged 22, he was killed in action and was buried in the Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, 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.