The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Portrait of Lieutenant L Kennedy-Smith, probably Second Lieutenant Leslie Kennedy-Smith, a bank clerk from Bairnsdale, Victoria, prior to enlistment. 2nd Lt Kennedy-Smith embarked from Melbourne with the 4th Reinforcements, 58th Battalion, aboard HMAT Orsova (A67) on 1 August 1916. He was killed in action at Polygon Wood, Belgium on 25 September 1917. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a concession 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.
Portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) A L MacNaughton, Australian Flying Corps. An articled law clerk student prior to enlistment, Lt Alexander Leighton MacNaughton embarked with A Flight, No. 1 Squadron from M
Portrait of Noel Higham probably 295 Private (Pte) Noel Higham, a clerk from Carlton, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Pte Higham embarked from Melbourne with the C Flight, No. 1 Squadron, Australian Fl
Portrait of Leslie Horscroft, probably 296 Private (Pte) Leslie Horscroft, an electrical engineer from Armadale, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Pte Horscroft embarked with C Flight, No. 1 Squadron, Au
Portrait of T S Gillett probably 387 2nd Air Mechanic Theodore Stanley Gillett, a clerk from Abbotsford, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Gillett embarked from Melbourne with the 1st Reinforcements of N
Portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Eric G Roberts, Australian Flying Corps. An accountant prior to enlistment, Lt Eric Glendower Roberts embarked with B Flight, No. 1 Squadron from Melbourne aboard HMAT Orso
“Major Macartney and Lt Wackett in flying machine.” Both officers with the Permanent Forces prior to enlistment, Lieutenant Lawrence James Wackett (left) and Major Henry Dundas Keith Macartney (right)
