3935, Private Robert Andrew Sykes
23rd Battalion
Australian War Memorial:
Studio portrait of 3935 Private (Pte) Robert Andrew Sykes, 23rd Battalion, a 33 year old farmer from Melbourne, Victoria when he enlisted in the AIF on 14 July 1915. He embarked for overseas with the 9th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 8 February 1916 aboard HMAT Warilda. After serving in France for five weeks with the 1st ANZAC Entrenching Battalion, he was admitted to hospital with deafness. Pte Sykes was evacuated to England and then returned to Australia and discharged on 11 March 1917. 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 a unit name, for each negative.
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National Archives – Service Record
