Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel (Lt Col) Edgar Hercules Reynolds, Australian Flying Corps. A professional soldier from South Yarra, Vic, Lt Col Reynolds embarked as the Commanding Officer No1. Squadron from Melbourne on HMAT Orsova on 16 March 1916. Later serving with 1 ANZAC Headquarters, 5th Divisional Headquarters and 3rd Divisional Headquarters, he was appointed staff officer, Aviation, AIF and returned to Australia on 9 June 1918. Following his return he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services in connection with the War. 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.
See also DAAV00039A and DAAV00040