Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13240

Description

Studio portrait of 4289 Private (Pte) Reginald Arthur Stanley Pemberton. A groom from Newmarket, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Pemberton embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Later transferring to the 46th Battalion he was admitted to hospital suffering from shell shock. Following his recovery he was invalided to England suffering from pharyngitis. He returned to Australia on 12 March 1918 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

Accession Number
DA13240
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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