Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA13695
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

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.

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