Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13233

Description

Studio portrait of 4155 Private (Pte) Joseph Cannane. A labourer from South Ballarat, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Cannane embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He later transferred to the 4th Machine Gun Company and was appointed as a Temporary Driver and later as a Driver. He was then invalided to England suffering from influenza. He was still recovering when the Armistice was declared and returned to Australia on 5 April 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
DA13233
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Transparency
Physical Description
Support: Glass
Date Made
c 23 December 1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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