Description
Studio portrait of Second Lieutenant (2ndLt) Charles Herbert Stephenson (position unknown) and a soldier identified as Lieutenant (Lt) Newnham. A 25 year old builder and contractor from Elsternwick, Victoria prior to enlistment, 2ndLt Stephenson had qualified for commission on 30 Mar 1917 and served as Acting Sergeant at the Recruit Depot at Broadmeadows before embarking as an officer with the 13th (V) Reinforcements from Melbourne on SS Zealandic on 5 October 1918. He arrived in England after the Armistice had been declared and was promoted to Lieutenant before returning to Australia on 2 August 1919. Unable to identify Lt Newnham. 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.
Details
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
c 23 November 1916
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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