Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3490 Private (Pte) Charles Twight, 60th Battalion from Northcote, Victoria. A 24 year old storeman prior to enlisting on 19 May 1917, he embarked for overseas with the 9th Reinforcements from Sydney on 16 July 1917 aboard HMAT Port Melbourne. After further training in England, he joined the 60th Battalion in France on 13 January 1918. Pte Twight was killed in action on 27 April 1918 and is buried in the Crucifix Corner British Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, 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.