Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA16353
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 8 September 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

G Holloway [Register caption].
Studio portrait of 2676 Private (Pte) George Alfred Holloway, 6th Reinforcements, 58th Battalion. A farmer of Barnawartha, Victoria, prior to enlistment on 25 July 1916, he embarked aboard HMAT Nestor in Melbourne on 2 October 1916. Pte Holloway was severely injured in his right arm in March 1917 and following treatment was returned to Australia on 26 September 1917 before his discharge in December 1917. See also DA16354

This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.