Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Group portrait including 6596 Private (Pte) Herbert Redford Tuckfield (position unknown). A commercial traveller from Toorak, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Tuckfield embarked with the 21st Reinforcements, 5th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 2 October 1916. Whilst at sea he was promoted to Acting Sergeant and, following his arrival in England, he was awarded the Royal Humane Society Silver Medal and Certificate for gallantry in saving life. Later reported as missing in action it was subsequently determined that he had been killed in action in Belgium on 13 October 1917. Having no known grave he 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. See also DA16362.