Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 7558 Private Ernest Newbound, 24th Battalion from Burnley, Victoria. A 19 year old farm hand prior to enlistment on 2 July 1917, he embarked for overseas with the 20th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 21 November 1917 aboard HMAT Nestor. While serving on the Western Front, he was killed in action on 19 May 1918 near Ville-Sur-Ancre, France and is buried in the Ribemont, Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.