Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA10406
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 568 Private (Pte) Leslie Archibald Hayes, B Company, 29th Battalion, of Wycheproof, Vic. Pte Hayes previously served with the 73rd Infantry Battalion, Citizens Military Forces and enlisted on 20 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ascanius on 10 November 1915. He died on 26 July 1916 of wounds he received in France.

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