Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA15907

Description

Studio portrait of 6056 Private (Pte) Arthur George Newman, 5th Battalion. A farmer from Northcote, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Newman embarked with the 19th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles on 28 July 1916. Whilst serving in France he was wounded in action and, due to the severity of his wound, returned to Australia on 18 October 1917 and was medically discharged. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the 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

Conflicts

• First World War, 1914-1918