The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 4532 Private (Pte) Arthur Leslie Lodge. A labourer from Tunbridge, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Lodge had previously been rejected due to suffering from varicose veins. After treatment he successfully enlisted and embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. He later transferred to the 11th Field Artillery Brigade and was re-mustered as a Gunner. Subsequently serving with the 4th Heavy and Medium Trench Mortar Battery he was posted as missing in action. It was later determined that he had been killed on 3 May 1917 along with a number of other men when an enemy artillery shell destroyed an ammunition dump. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. 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 7577 Private (Pte) Norman Ernest Short. A labourer from Omeo, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Short had previously been rejected due to varicose veins. Following his enlistment he
Studio portrait of 11894 Gunner (Gnr) John Maurice Shepherd. A field hand from Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Gnr Shepherd had previously been rejected because of varicose veins. Following h
Studio portrait of 6817 Private (Pte) George Edward Flack. A labourer from Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Flack had been previously rejected suffering from varicose veins. He embarked fo
Studio portrait of 2414 Private (Pte) James Foster. A sailor from Clifton Hill, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Foster had been previously been rejected due to bad teeth. After successfully enlistin
Portrait of 4061 Private (Pte) Malcolm Balfour. Pte Balfour enlisted on 16 November 1914 at Bairnsdale, Victoria. He was initially rejected because of varicose veins. After removal of the varicose ve
Studio portrait of 2909 Private (Pte) James Connell, 31st Battalion. An optician from Gladesville, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Connell embarked with the 5th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Anch
