Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1407 Fitter Daniel Bernard Faulds, 35th Australian Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company. A fitter from Paddington NSW prior to enlistment, Fitter Faulds embarked with the Railways Unit Reinforcement and Special Draft from Melbourne on HMAT Shropshire on 11 May 1917. He returned to Australia on HMAT Karmala on 1 July 1919 and subsequently died on 19 January 1920. He is buried in the Waverly General Cemetery, Sydney, NSW. 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.