Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA08578

Description

C. J. McKinnon. [Register caption].
Studio portrait of 437 Private (Pte) Charles John McKinnon, 22nd Battalion, of Moyston, Vic. Pte McKinnon enlisted on 27 January 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Ulysses on 8 May 1915. On 5 August 1916 he was killed in action at Pozieres, France. He has no known grave and is memorialised at Villers Bretonneux, 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

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Accession Number
DA08578
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
28 April 1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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