Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13821

Description

Studio portrait of 4894 Private (Pte) John Thomas O’Brien. A labourer from Edenhope, Victoria, prior to enlistment, Pte O’Brien embarked with the 15th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916. He was later gassed and, also suffering from trench fever, he was invalided to England. He was still recovering when the Armistice was declared and he returned to Australia on 5 March 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. See also DA13820.

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Conflicts

• First World War, 1914-1918