Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 3485 Private (Pte) Gilbert Tennant, 57th Battalion from Surrey Hills, Victoria. A 32 year old gardener prior to enlisting on 27 March 1917, he embarked for overseas with the 9th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 21 June 1917 aboard HMAT Suevic. Following further training in England, he joined the 57th Battalion in France on 25 December 1917. Pte Tennant was killed in action near Peronne, France on 1 September 1918 and is buried in the Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension. 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.