Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Acting Sergeant (A/Sgt) Howard Erskine Davies, 58th Battalion. A clerk from East Malvern, Victoria prior to enlistment, A/Sgt Davies embarked with the 6th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 2 October 1916. Later reverting to the rank of Private, he was wounded in action at Bullecourt. On 23 May 1917, aged 35, he died as a result of his wounds and was buried in the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France. 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. See also DA16211 & DA16430.