Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2626 Private (Pte) Alfred Stanley Ewart, 24th Battalion. A porter from Violet Town, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Ewart embarked with the 6th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 27 October 1915. Originally declared as missing in action, a subsequent Court of Enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 5 August 1916, aged 19, and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. His remains were later recovered and were interred in the Serre Road Cemetery No. 2, near Hamel, 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.