Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4567 Private (Pte) Carl Wilfred Lewis. A labourer from West Brunswick, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Lewis embarked with the 12th Reinforcements, 29th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Medic on 16 December 1916. Later transferring to the 39th Battalion he was wounded in action. On 14 April 1918 he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery, France. 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.