Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13703

Description

Studio portrait of 4463 Private (Pte) Oscar Kenneth Corlett. A porter from Austin’s Ferry, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Corlett embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. He later transferred to the 52nd Battalion and was evacuated to England after being wounded in the back and forearm. Subsequently diagnosed as suffering from a valvular disease of the heart, he returned to Australia on 5 November 1917 and was medically discharged. He later served in the Second World War with the 30th Garrison Battalion. 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