Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6540 Private (Pte) John Murphy. A labourer from Yea, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Murphy embarked along with his brother 6633 Private Thomas Henry Murphy, with the 21st Reinforcements, 5th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 2 October. On 20 September 1917, aged 21, he was killed in action in Belgium 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.