Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13828

Description

Studio portrait of 3805 Private (Pte) Alick Dinsdale. A labourer from Ferntree Gully, Victoria, prior to enlistment, Pte Dinsdale had been previously been rejected due to bad teeth. After successfully enlisting he embarked with the 9th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. He was later evacuated to England after being wounded in the right leg. After re-joining his battalion he was wounded in the left thigh as well as the .testicle. After recovering he served briefly with the 23rd Battalion before re-joining his original unit. Following the Armistice he was again invalided to England suffering from dysentery and returned to Australia on 2 January 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