Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3538 Private (Pte) Stanley Gordon Ingamells. A plumber from Benalla, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Ingamells embarked with the 8th Reinforcements, 3rd Pioneer Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 21 November 1917. Later transferring to the 60th Battalion he was killed in action on 8 August 1918, aged 20. Initially buried in the Card Copse British Cemetery his remains were later exhumed and re-interred in the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Picardie, France. His brother, 3987 Pte Robert Harnise Ingamells also served in the AIF. 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.