Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13080

Description

Studio portrait of 4308 Private (Pte) William Dallan Shotter. Originally from Brentford, England, Pte Shotter was a farmer from Wodonga, Victoria prior to enlistment and embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He was later invalided to England suffering from bronchitis. While recovering he took the opportunity to get married. He later served with the Australian Army Medical Corps Details and returned to Australia on 4 September 1919. . 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.

Details

Accession Number
DA13080
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
c 13 December 1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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