Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 719 Private (Pte) Francis Gordon Scott. A railway employee from Diamond Creek, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Scott embarked with the 12th Reinforcements, 10th Machine Gun Company from Melbourne on HMAT Aeneas on 30 October 1917. Later transferring to the 21st Battalion he was killed in action on 10 June 1918, aged 19, and was buried in the Mericourt-L’Abbe Communal Cemetery Extension, Picardie, France. His brother, Lieutenant Daniel Scott served with the 8th Battalion. 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.