Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13827

Description

Studio portrait of 4800 Private (Pte) George Oliver Fitzgerald. A labourer from Woolsthorpe, Victoria, prior to enlistment, Pte Fitzgerald embarked with the 15th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916. He later transferred to the 46th Battalion and was invalided to England suffering from synovitis in his right knee. After recovering he re-joined his unit in France and was wounded in the right foot and again evacuated to England. He was still recovering when the Armistice was declared and he returned to Australia on 25 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 DA13824.

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Conflicts

• First World War, 1914-1918