Accession Number | DASEY1224 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Glass original half plate negative |
Maker |
Darge Photographic Company |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Seymour |
Date made | c 12 August 1915 |
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 1173 Corporal (Cpl) Robert McIntyre, 29th Battalion. A clerk from Parkville, Victoria prior to enlistment, Cpl McIntyre embarked with D Company from Melbourne on HMAT Ascanius on 10 November 1915. Whilst serving in France, he was wounded in action and, on 8 August 1916, aged 22, he died as a result of his wounds and was buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery, 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.