DA15080
Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
- ID number
- DA15080
- Photographer
- Darge Photographic Company
- Object type
- Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
- Place made
- Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows
- Date made
- c 30 April 1916
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- Studio portrait of 4494 Private William Adam Andrew Macpherson, 32nd Battalion who was a 24 year old clerk from Kensington Park, South Australia when he enlisted and embarked for overseas with the 12th Reinforcements from Adelaide on 16 December 1916 aboard HMAT Berrima. While serving with the 48th Battalion in France, he was wounded in action on 3 May 1918 and evacuated to England for medical treatment. He arrived back in Australia on 22 November 1918. [See also image DA15981] This one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930's, 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.
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