Description
Studio portrait of 4555 Private (Pte) Gordon James Maddox. A farmer from Latrobe, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Maddox embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. He later transferred to the 52nd Battalion and then to the 13th Machine Gun Company. Subsequently joining the 4th Machine Gun Battalion he was appointed as a Driver and returned to Australia on 1 May 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.
Details
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
c 2 February 1916
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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