Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA17980

Description

Studio portrait of J Andrews possibly 7436 Private (Pte) James Andrews. An 18 year old farm labourer from Cobrico via Camperdown, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Andrews embarked with the 25th Reinforcements, 6th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles on 4 August 1917. He was later hospitalised after being gassed. After rejoining his battalion he was wounded in the right hand and invalided to England. Following the Armistice he was attached to Administration Headquarters (War Records). He then took the opportunity to marry and was later hospitalised suffering from influenza. He was subsequently granted leave to remain in England in order to undertake commercial studies. This was later extended and he returned to Australia on 23 March 1920. 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.

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Conflicts

• First World War, 1914-1918