Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DAAV00026

Description

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 Orsova (A67) on 16 March 1916. In March 1917 Lt Roberts returned to Australia suffering from shell shock. 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.

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Accession Number
DAAV00026
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
c 9 March 1916
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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