Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of W N Ashworth. This is most likely 2529 Private William Nathan Ashworth, 44th Battalion, of York, WA. he was killed in action on 18 April 1918. 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.