Accession Number | DA15046 |
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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 24 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 639 Private George Paterson, 39th Battalion who was a 22 year old winch driver from Yarraville, Victoria when he enlisted and embarked for overseas with B Company from Melbourne on 27 May 1916 aboard HMAT Ascanius. (He had earlier enlisted on 14 July 1915 only to be discharged medically unfit three weeks later.) While serving in France, Private Paterson was killed in action on 8 January 1917 and is buried at the Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, 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 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.