Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6911 Private (Pte) William Emanuel Wallman, 23rd Battalion from Pinnaroo, South Australia. A 26 year old farmer prior to enlisting on 24 October 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 19th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 11 May 1917 aboard HMAT Ascanius. After further training in England, he joined the 23rd Battalion in Belgium on 24 February 1918. Pte Wallman was killed in action less than a month later, on 22 March 1918 and is buried in the Berks Cemetery Extension, Belgium. [See also image DA17568.] 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.