Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of Lieutenant L Kennedy-Smith, probably Second Lieutenant Leslie Kennedy-Smith, a bank clerk from Bairnsdale, Victoria, prior to enlistment. 2nd Lt Kennedy-Smith embarked from Melbourne with the 4th Reinforcements, 58th Battalion, aboard HMAT Orsova (A67) on 1 August 1916. He was killed in action at Polygon Wood, Belgium on 25 September 1917. 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.