Accession Number | DA13695 |
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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 30 January 1916 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Description
Studio portrait of 4500 Private (Pte) Tasman Gallagher, 14th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion, of Franklin, Tas. Pte Gallagher enlisted on 7 December 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. Pte Gallagher was wounded three times, at Pozieres, Mouquet Farm and Amiens. On 6 December 1916, aged eighteen years and four months, he died of nephritis at Rouen, France.