Accession Number | DA15058 |
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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 April 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 two unidentified men standing and 1652 Private Clarence Warnecke, 3rd Pioneer Battalion who was an 18 year old tent maker from Brunswick, Victoria when he enlisted and embarked for overseas with A Company from Melbourne on 6 June 1916 aboard HMAT Wandilla. After serving in France, he was admitted with influenza to the War Hospital Croydon, England where he died on 18 January 1919. He is buried in the Australian Military Burial Ground, Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, 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 1930's, 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.