The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 2230 Private (Pte) Thomas Walton Hoare, 8th Battalion, of Mount Egerton, Vic. 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.
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 Fl
Studio portrait of Thomas Carter, probably 2735 Private (Pte) Thomas Carter, 14th Battalion. A labourer from North Fitzroy, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Carter embarked with the 8th Reinforcement
Studio portrait of 2785 Private (Pte) George Henry Barrett, 9th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion, of Euroa, Vic. Pte Barrett enlisted on 5 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Makarini on 15
Studio portrait of 719 Private (Pte) Reginald Alexander Bean, C Company, 31st Battalion, of Moonee Ponds, Vic. Pte Bean enlisted on 22 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Wandilla on 9 N
Studio portrait of 2724 Private (Pte) Felix Cartwright, 8th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion, of Brunswick, Vic. Pte Cartwright enlisted on 21 June 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Makarini o
Studio portrait probably of 2570 Private (Pte) John Carter, 8th Reinforcements, 7th Battalion, of Northcote, Vic. Pte Carter enlisted on 9 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Anchises on
