Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4117 Private (Pte) William Honeychurch. A printer from Bright, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Honeychurch had previously been rejected on the grounds of inadequate chest measurement and embarked with the 32nd Reinforcements, 4th Light Horse Regiment from Sydney on HMAT Wiltshire on 2 February 1918. He later served in France with the Artillery details as a Gunner. Subsequently transferring to the 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column, he returned to Australia on 1 July 1919. Two brothers, 206 Pte Henry Honeychurch and 595B Pte Hector George Honeychurch, were killed in action. 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.