Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 7466 Private (Pte) Gordon Garnett Campbell. A labourer from Hamilton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Campbell embarked with the 25th Reinforcements, 8th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 21 November 1917. Later wounded in action he was evacuated to hospital. On 13 September 1918, aged 22, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the St Sever Cemetery Extension, Haute Normandie, France. 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. See also DA18355 & DA18425.