Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA08592

Description

Studio portrait of 2232 (later 1796) Private (Pte) George Thomas Floate, 8th Battalion, of Ararat, Vic (left) and and 2230 Pte Thomas Walton Hoare, 8th Battalion, of Mount Egerton, Vic (right). Pte Floate enlisted on 19 April 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Wandilla on 17 June 1915. He was wounded in 1917 and again in 1918. On 27 August 1918 he was promoted to Sergeant and he returned to Australia on 16 June 1919. Pte Hoare enlisted on 15 April 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Wandilla on 17 June 1915. He returned to Australia on 9 July 1919 after serving as a Lance Corporal with the 1st Machine Gun Battalion. 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.

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Conflicts

• First World War, 1914-1918