Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6832 Sergeant (Sgt) Sam Herbert Hirst, 23rd Battalion, a 27 year old clerk from South Melbourne, Victoria when he enlisted and embarked for overseas with the 19th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 11 May 1917 aboard HMAT Ascanius. While serving in France with the 23rd Battalion, he was killed in action on 17 August 1918 and buried at Heath Cemetery, East of Harbonnieres, 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 1930's, 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.