Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6829 Private John Hehir, 23rd Battalion, who was a single 44 year old labourer from Toorak, Victoria when he enlisted and embarked for overseas with the 19th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 11 May 1917 aboard HMAT Ascanius. After joining the 23rd Battalion in France on 7 April 1918, he was wounded in action on 20 May 1918 and died of wounds that same day. He is buried in the Querrieu British Cemetery, ten kilometres east north east of Amiens, 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.