Accession Number | DA14704 |
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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 3 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 5081 Acting Corporal (A/Cpl) Noel James Gillespie, 7th Battalion. A farmer from Lake Boga, Victoria prior to enlistment, A/Cpl Gillespie embarked with the 16th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Suffolk on 1 April 1916. Later reverting to the rank of Private, he was wounded in action at Polygon Wood. On 6 October 1917, aged 27, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, 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. See also DA14703.