Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of Lieutenant H??? or H???? probably of the 22nd or 23rd Battalion, possibly Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Reginald Edric Hain, 23rd Battalion. A barrister from South Yarra prior to enlistment 2nd Lt Hain embarked with A Company from Melbourne aboard HMAT Euripides (A14) on 10 May 1915. During his service Hain suffered from many illnesses including enteritis, synovitis and neurasthenia. In 1918 he achieved the rank of Captain worked for a period of time as a Legal Advisor, Headquarters, AIF Depots in the United Kingdom. He returned to Australia on 30 October 1919. 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. See also P10699.002.