Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6239 Private (Pte) Leslie Hey Cutler. A carpenter from Carlton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Cutler embarked with the 20th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Port Sydney on 7 September 1916. Later reported as missing in action in France, it was later determined that he had been killed in action on 11 April 1917, aged 19. His remains were later recovered and interred in The Queant Road British Cemetery, Buissy, France. 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.