Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of I or T Tavener, possibly Lieutenant Anthony (Tony?) Tavener. An insurance inspector from Kew, Victoria, and a member of the 51st Infantry (Albert Park) prior to the war, Tavener served at Broadmeadows in 1915 and 1916 before enlisting in the AIF in November 1916. He embarked with the 24th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ballarat (A70) on 19 February 1917. Tavener was promoted to Lieutenant in September 1917. He received gunshot wounds in 1918 and returned to Australia in 1919. Anthony Tavener also served in the Second World War. 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.