Accession Number | DA10344 |
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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
Studio portrait of 2342 Corporal (Cpl) Albert Batchelor, 5th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion, of Melbourne, Vic (originally of Edmonton, London, England). Cpl Batchelor enlisted on 15 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Osterley on 29 September 1915. He died on 12 August 1916 from wounds he received at Mouquet Farm, France, and is memorialised at Etaples Military Cemetery in 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.