Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA08576

Description

J. J. Campbell. [Register caption]
Studio portrait of 6 Private (Pte) John James Campbell, 23rd Battalion, of South Melbourne, Vic. Pte Campbell enlisted on 22 February 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Euripides on 10 May 1915. On 28 July 1916 he was killed in action at Pozieres, France.
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
DA08576
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
3 May 1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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