Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6458 Private (Pte) John Benjamin Adams. A butcher from Shepparton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Adams embarked with the 21st Reinforcements, 5th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 2 October 1916. He was later diagnosed as suffering from mania and returned to Australia on 22 February 1917 and was medically discharged. 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.