Accession Number | DA14790 |
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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 26 May 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 5730 Private (Pte) Charles George Mitchell, 8th Battalion. A labourer from Bruthen, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Mitchell embarked with the 18th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ayrshire on 3 July 1916. While serving in France he died from alcoholic poisoning on 14 February 1917 and was buried in the Bazentin-le-Petit Cemetery, Bazentin, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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.