DAAV00006A
Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
- ID number
- DAAV00006A
- Photographer
- Darge Photographic Company
- Object type
- Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
- Place made
- Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Point Cook
- Date made
- c 23 March 1916
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- Portrait of an unidentified Australian Flying Corps (AFC) trainee in the pilot's seat of a a Bristol Boxkite at the Central Flying School (CFS), Point Cook. This is 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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