Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3054 Private (Pte) Henry William Frisch, 8th Battalion. A labourer from Warrnambool, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Frisch embarked with the 10th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard RMS Osterley on 29 September 1915. Later transferring to the 58th Battalion, on 17 October 1917, aged 23, he died of wounds received in action and was buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. 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 no