Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13189

Description

Studio portrait of 4314 Private (Pte) George Frederick Glover. A miner from Mt Cameron, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Glover embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916. Following his arrival in Abbassia he was hospitalised suffering from mumps. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion in France and was wounded in the hand and invalided to England. Following his recovery he re-joined his battalion and on 25 August 1918, aged 21, he was killed in action and, having no known grave, he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. His brother 6078 Pte Jack Glover, 12th Battalion was killed in action on 5 May 1917. 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
DA13189
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
c 23 December 1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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