The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 4386 Private (Pte) Bernard Thomas Doyle, 23rd Battalion. A clerk from East Prahran, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Doyle embarked with the 11th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard RMS Malwa on 23 April 1916. On 1 October 1917 he was killed in action at Broodseide in the Ypres area of Belgium, aged 20, and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial. 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 4386 Private Bernard Thomas Doyle, 23rd Battalion, of Prahran, Victoria. A clerk in the Federal Department of Taxation prior to enlistment, he embarked with the 11th Reinforcements
Studio portrait of 4417 Private (Pte) Michael Joseph Fogarty, 24th Battalion. A clerk from South Yarra, Melbourne prior to enlistment, Pte Fogarty embarked with the 11th Reinforcements from Melbourne
Studio portrait of 4304 Private (Pte) Ambrose Havelock Fogarty, 12th Battalion. A farmer from Sandfly, Tas prior to enlistment, Pte Fogarty embarked with the 13th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard
Studio portrait of 5010 Private (Pte) Henri William Erickson, 23rd Battalion. A clerk from South Melbourne, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Erickson embarked with the 13th Reinforcements from Melbourne o
Studio portrait of 2571 Private (Pte) George Bickley, 23rd Battalion. A labourer from Drouin, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Bickley embarked with the 6th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAYT Uly
Studio portrait of 4528 Private (Pte) Arthur Ernest Wilson Shaw, 24th Battalion. Originally from Manchester, England, Pte Shaw was a manufacturer’s agent from East Prahran, Victoria prior to enlistmen
