Accession Number | DA10156 |
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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 September 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
Description
Studio portrait of 1984 Private (Pte) Ernest John Wearne, 3rd Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion, of Ararat, Vic. Pte Wearne enlisted on 17 June 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Anchises on 26 August 1915. He died of pleurisy and pneumonia on 15 July 1916.