Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA08643

Description

Studio portrait of W Cox, identified as 852 Private (Pte) Walter Charles Ebden Cox, a labourer from Sale, Victoria, prior to enlistment. Pte Cox embarked from Melbourne with D Company, 24th Battalion, aboard HMAT Euripides (A14) on 10 May 1915. On 7 August 1916 he was wounded during the counter-attack on Pozieres Heights, France. He was later evacuated to a hospital in Northamptonshire, England, where he died on 22 September 1916. 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
DA08643
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
c 4 May 1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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