Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 166 Private (Pte) Lemuel Reginald Valentine Fitzanthorne Batey, A Company, 29th Battalion, of Katandra, Vic. Pte Batey enlisted on 13 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ascanius on 10 November 1915. He was killed in action on 20 July 1916 at Fleurbaix, 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.