Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3530 Private (Pte) Francis Clement De Meur, 5th Battalion, of North Sydney, NSW. Pte De Meur originally embarked with the 13th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 22nd December 1914 with the service number of 1393. Due to illness he left Suez on 3 August 1915 aboard HMAT Port Lincoln to return to Australia. On 11th October 1915 he re-embarked for overseas with the 11th Reinforcements 5th Battalion from Melbourne aboard HMAT Nestor on 11 October 1915. On 4 March 1916 he rejoined his original unit, 13th Battalion, and was reassigned his previous regimental number 1393. Pte De Meur was killed in action on 15 August 1916 at Pozieres, France 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.