Accession Number | DA09503 |
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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 June 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 possibly of 1857 Private (Pte) Cecil Lewis Whitby, 2nd Reinforcements, 46th Battalion, of Brighton Beach, Vic. Pte Whitby enlisted on 10 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Euripides on 4 April 1916. He was promoted to a temporary sergeant on 22 October 1917