Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13391A

Description

Studio portrait of 4300 Private (Pte) Arthur Roberts. A driver from Ballarat East prior to enlistment, Pte Roberts embarked with the 13th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion on HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. Later suffering from trench fever he was invalided to England. After recovering he re-joined his battalion and was gassed and admitted to hospital. Following his subsequent recovery he was appointed as Lance Corporal and wounded in the right leg and evacuated to England. He was still recovering when the Armistice was declared and he returned to Australia on 20 November 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.See also DA13391.

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Conflicts

• First World War, 1914-1918