Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of two soldiers with a bugle and drum, one of whom is identified as 32304 Gunner (Gnr) Norman Gregson (position unknown). Originally from Rochdale, England, Gnr Gregson was a motor driver from Ensay, Victoria prior to enlistment and embarked with the 8th Reinforcements, 8th Field Artillery Brigade (FAB) from Melbourne on RMS Osterley on 14 February 1917. Later transferring to the 13th FAB, he was killed in action on 30 September 1917, aged 22, and was buried in The Huts Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. 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..