The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 2417 Private (Pte) Joseph Edmund Read, 31st Battalion. A labourer from Wollongong, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Read embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916. Later transferring to the 1st Pioneer Battalion, he was re-mustered as a Driver. Subsequently developing chronic bronchitis, he returned to Australia on 8 April 1918 and was medically discharged. 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.
Studio portrait of 3032 Private (Pte) Clifford Stanley George Sawers, 31st Battalion. A labourer from Burra Gate, NSW prior to enlistment Pte Sawers embarked along with his brothers 3031 Pte Robert Sa
Studio portrait of 2510 Private (Pte) Hugh Albert Louis McKean. A stockman from Red Hill, Queensland prior to enlistment, Pte McKean embarked with the 4th Reinforcements, 31st Battalion from Melbourne
Studio portrait of 4886 Acting Sergeant (A/Sgt) Philip William Whiteside Maclean, 14th Battalion. A clerk from Upper Swan, WA prior to enlistment, A/Sgt Maclean embarked with the 15th Reinforcements f
Studio portrait of 1892 Private (Pte) William James Moon, 60th Battalion. A bottler from Elsternwick, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Moon embarked with the 3rd Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT
Studio portrait of 2298 Private (Pte) Francis Buchanan, 29th Battalion. A railway labourer from Carlton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Buchanan embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne
Studio portrait of H E Ward, probably 1747 Private (Pte) Henry Edward Ward, 59th Battalion. A native of Allgreen, England, Pte Ward was a farm labourer from Middle Brighton, Vic prior to enlistment an
