Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA13870

Description

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 Warilda on 8 February 1916. He later transferred to the Australian Divisional Base Depot and was appointed to Acting Corporal and then attached to the Anzac Provost Corps. Subsequently reverting to the rank of Private he was appointed as a Lance Corporal and then as Acting Quartermaster Sergeant. Later suffering from a sprained ankle he returned to Australia on 31 October 1917 and was medically discharged. He later served with the Volunteer Defence Corps in the Second World War as a member of the Headquarters Hobart Anti-Aircraft Battery. 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