The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 4442 Private (Pte) Alfred Miller. Originally from Manchester, England, Pte Miller was a dairyman from North Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment and embarked with the 11th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on RMS Malwa on 21 March 1916. Later transferring to the 37th Battalion he was invalided to England after being wounded in the left knee. Later diagnosed as suffering from epilepsy he was again invalided to England. He returned to Australia on 8 April 1918 and was medically discharged. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a concession 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.
Studio portrait of 4528 Private (Pte) Arthur Ernest Wilson Shaw, 24th Battalion. Originally from Manchester, England, Pte Shaw was a manufacturer’s agent from East Prahran, Victoria prior to enlistmen
Studio portrait of 4528 Private (Pte) Arthur Ernest Wilson Shaw, 24th Battalion. Originally from Manchester, England, Pte Shaw was a manufacturer’s agent from East Prahran, Victoria prior to enlistmen
Studio portrait of 3459 Private (Pte) Fred Shirley. Originally from Manchester, England, Pte Shirley was a farm hand from Ascot Vale, Victoria prior to enlistment and embarked with the 9th Reinforceme
Studio portrait of 4357 Private (Pte) Noel Calvin Lawrence Beaton. A flour miller from Toolamba, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Beaton attended the AIF Signal School before embarking with the 11th
Studio portrait of 4574 Private (Pte) Thomas Henry Hayes, 24th Battalion from North Fitzroy, Victoria. A 21 year old butcher prior to enlisting on 2 August 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 11th
Studio portrait of 1718 Private (Pte) Cecil Marsh Arnold, 37th Battalion. A clerk from North Carlton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Arnold embarked with the 2nd Reinforcements from Melbourne on R
