Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 755 Private (Pte) James Daniel Crosbie. A farmer from Kelvin View via Euroa, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Crosbie embarked with the 14th Reinforcements, 15th Machine Gun Company from Melbourne on HMAT Aeneas on 30 October 1917. Later transferring to the 24th Battalion he was allotted the service number 755A. Later serving in France he returned to Australia on 6 September 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.