Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3117 Private (Pte) Clarence William Patullo, 14th Battalion. Pte Patullo, a wood machinist from Numurkah, Vic prior to enlistment embarked with the 10th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Port Lincoln on 16 October 1915. Later transferring to the 4th Light Trench Mortar Battery, he was killed in action at Pozieres, France aged 19 and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. 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. See also DA11006.