Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of Indigenous serviceman 6271 Private (Pte) Julian Clifford Everett, 12th Battalion. A farmer from Cape Barren Island, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Everett embarked with the 20th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Botanist on 24 August 1916. While serving in France he contracted influenza and was evacuated to England. Later diagnosed as suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, he returned to Australia on 12 May 1918 and was medically discharged. 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.