The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 3782 Private (Pte) Norman Victor Cronin. A labourer from Cobden, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Cronin embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 23rd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. He was later hospitalised suffering from influenza. After recovering he re-joined his battalion and was invalided to England suffering from trench feet. Following his recovery he returned to his battalion and on 9 October 1917, aged 21, he was killed in action near Passchendaele. Having no known grave 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 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.
Studio portrait of 3798 Private (Pte) Edward Kershaw. A labourer from Middle Brighton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Kershaw had previously been discharged for refusing inoculation. Later re-enlis
Studio portrait of 3798 Private (Pte) Edward Kershaw. A labourer from Middle Brighton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Kershaw had previously been discharged for refusing inoculation. Later re-enlis
Studio portrait of 3885 Private (Pte) James Francis McClelland. A labourer from Surrey Hills, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte McClelland embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion from Mel
Studio portrait of 4475 Private (Pte) Frederick Roy Cairns. A labourer from Ulverstone, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Cairns embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion from Melbourne on
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
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
