Description
Copy of a portrait of Coridas, probably either 103 Private (Pte) Rupert George Coridas, a labourer from Maffra, Victoria, or his cousin 6775 Pte Leslie Joseph Coridas, a farm labourer from SpringVale, Victoria. Pte Rupert Coridas embarked from Melbourne with A Company, 23rd Battalion, aboard HMAT Euripides (A14) on 10 May 1915. He was killed in action in France on 28 July 1916. Pte Leslie Coridas embarked from Melbourne with the 19th Reinforcements, 22nd Battalion, aboard HMAT Ascanius (A11) on 11 May 1917. He was killed in action in Belgium on 9 March 1918. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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.
Details
Accession Number
DACS1395
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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