Description
Studio portrait of 4136 Private (Pte) Charles William Binns. A clerk from Seymour, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Binns embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 6th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Later wounded in the chest and arm he was evacuated to England. Due to the severity of his wounds he returned to Australia on 13 February 1917 and was medically discharged. 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
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
c 22 December 1915
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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