The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 4554 Private (Pte) Victor Harold Moore. A labourer from Smithton, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Moore embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. Later attached to Military Police Headquarters he subsequently re-joined his battalion He was later hospitalized in France suffering from influenza and after recovering he returned to Australia on 20 May 1919. 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 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 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
Studio portrait of 4812 Private (Pte) Alvin Stanley Higgs. A labourer from Mole Creek, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Higgs embarked with the 15th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion from Melbourne on H
Studio portrait of 19855 Driver (Dvr) Sydney Ernest Lestrange. A labourer from Bushy Park, Victoria prior to enlistment, Dvr Lestrange embarked with the 30th Battery, 8th Field Artillery Brigade from
Studio portrait of 4509 Private (Pte) Norman Albert Higgins. A trapper from Bothwell, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Higgins embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion from Melbourne on
Studio portrait of 4548 Private (Pte) Kenneth Sutton Mulligan. A postal official from Ulverstone, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Mulligan had been previously rejected as being under age. After succ
