Description
Studio portrait of 913 Private (Pte) Rowland Edward Driscoll, 23rd Battalion. A clerk from St Kilda, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Driscoll enlisted embarked with C Company from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 10 May 1915. He was killed in action on 21 October 1915 at Gallipoli, aged 23, and was originally interred in the Brown's Dip South Cemetery, Anzac. Following the Armistice his remains were exhumed and re-interred in the Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 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. See also DA08945.
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Classification
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Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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