Accession Number | DA08334 |
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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 27 April 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 192 Private (Pte) Frederick Holden Foster, 24th Battalion. A labourer from Murrumbeena, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Foster embarked with A Company from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 10 May 1915. On 9 October 1915, he died at sea, aged 24, from wounds received at Gallipoli and was buried in the Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. His brother, 6012 Pte Angus John Foster, 6th Battalion, was killed in action 6 June 1918 at Villers Bretonneux. 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.