Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2529 Private (Pte) John Henry Malone. A station hand from Hamilton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Hamilton embarked with the 5th Reinforcements, 57th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Shropshire on 25 September 1916. On 26 September 1917, aged 25, he was killed in action at Polygon Wood and, having no known grave, is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, 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