Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA13853
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 2 February 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 probably of 4025 Private (Pte) Seymour Harrison, 9th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion, of Porepunkah, Vic. Pte Harrison is wearing corporal's stripes and may have been appointed temporarily to this rank. He enlisted on 23 August 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Warilda in Melbourne on 8 February 1916. He returned to Australia as a member of the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion on 27 May 1919.