Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of Captain (Capt) Dench or Derrick, 22nd Battalion, probably Capt Cecil Reginald Derrick. A food analyst from Port Melbourne, Victoria, prior to enlistment, Capt Derrick embarked with A Company from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ulysses on 10 May 1915. He died of wounds at Gallipoli on 20 September 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.