Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13654

Description

Studio portrait of 4775 Private (Pte) Oliver Thaw. An engine driver from Melbourne, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Thaw embarked with the 10th Reinforcements, 22nd Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. He was later promoted to Lance Corporal and transferred to the Australian Flying Corps with the service number 4775A. He was then appointed as 2nd Air Mechanic and later promoted to 1st Air Mechanic and then to Corporal Mechanic. Later appointed to Acting Sergeant Mechanic he subsequently reverted to the rank of Corporal Mechanic and returned to Australia on 20 June 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.

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Conflicts

• First World War, 1914-1918