Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3906 Private (Pte) Stirling John Rogerson. A potter from Box Hill, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Rogerson embarked with the 12th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion from Adelaide on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. He later served with the 59th and 60th Battalions and was wounded in the back and evacuated to England. Following his recovery he re-joined the 60th Battalion and was wounded in the right shoulder. Before returning to Australia he took the opportunity to get married and returned to Australia on an unspecified date in 1919. He later went on to serve in the Second World War as a Driver with the 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company. 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.