Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2241 Private (Pte) Frederick Philippe, 21st Battalion. A labourer from South Yarra, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Philippe embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Hororata on 27 September 1915. On 22 October 1918 he died from pneumonia, aged 30, and was buried in the St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France. 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.