Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13377

Description

Studio portrait of 4298 Private (Pte) Ernest William Stacey. A butcher from Bunyip, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Stacey embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 7th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He was later hospitalised suffering from scabies and following his recovery he re-joined his battalion. On 5 October 1917 he was killed in action near Passchendaele. Following the Armistice his remains could not be recovered and he is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. 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. See also DA13376 & DA12988.

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Conflicts

• First World War, 1914-1918