Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3023 Private (Pte) Thomas Bogue, marine fireman, of Geelong, Victoria. He enlisted in the 21st Battalion on 16 August 1915 and embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Wiltshire on 18 November 1915 for Egypt. He was transferred to the 60th Battalion in February 1916 and then to the 58th Battalion in March 1916. This battalion relocated to the Western Front, France in June 1916. Pte Bogue was killed in action on 15 July 1916 at Pozieres, France. He was aged 22 years. 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.