The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 4505 Private (Pte) Thomas Mansfield. A labourer from Zeehan, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Mansfield embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. Later promoted to Lance Corporal and then Temporary Corporal he qualified as a Lewis gunner. Subsequently reverting to the rank of Lance Corporal he was wounded in the left leg and evacuated to England. He returned to Australia on 21 December 1918. He went on to serve in the Second World War with the Headquarters Hobart Covering Force. 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. See also DA13709.
Studio portrait of 4505 Private (Pte) Thomas Mansfield, 14th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion, of Zeehan, Tas. Pte Mansfield enlisted on 13 October 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Warilda on 8 February 19
Studio portrait of 4742 Sapper (Spr) Arthur David Black, 5th Australian Tunnelling Company. A miner from Zeehan, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Black embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 25 M
Studio portrait of 4477 Private (Pte) Norman Alfonso Cooper. An agent from Hobart, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Cooper embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT
Studio portrait of 4775 Second Corporal Arthur William James Maggs, No 5 Tunnelling Company from Zeehan, Tasmania. A 38 year old miner prior to enlisting on 19 November 1915, he embarked for overseas
Studio portrait of 4448 Private (Pte) Albert Leslie Breward. A labourer from Black Sugarloaf, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Breward embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion from Melbo
Studio portrait of Private (Pte) Charles Rowett Willing. A clerk from Hobart, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Willing embarked with the rank of Acting Lance Corporal with the 13th Reinforcements, 12
