Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6580 Private (Pte) Lionel Eric Summers, 5th Battalion from Malvern, Victoria. An 18 year old clerk prior to enlisting on 18 July 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 21st Reinforcements from Melbourne on 2 October 1916 aboard HMAT Nestor. Following further training in England, he joined the 5th Battalion in France in December 1917. He was wounded in action on 9 August 1918 at Harbonnieres, France and died of his wounds the next day. Pte Summers is buried in the Vignacourt British 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.