ID Number: DA12244
Maker: Darge Photographic Company
Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows
Portrait of 3710 Private Francis Edmund Bilton, 5th Battalion. Note the cat curled up asleep in the corner.
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 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.
Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions.
This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection www.awm.gov.au
Persistent URL:http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/DA12244
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Constantina de Bizancio 16 months ago | reply
pik-slh 13 months ago | reply
Seemed like , cat and solider are taking turns to guard the canvas.
Classy pic though.
Stroumdesign.com 7 months ago | reply
great quality black and white
KarenATL62 4 months ago | reply
This photo shows the perfection of a cat. A war going on around him and he's happily found his piece of sun to bask in.