Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6616 Signaller Hector Lawrence Sutherland, 23rd Battalion from Caulfield, Victoria. A 21 year old booking clerk prior to enlisting on 19 July 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 17th Reinforcements from Sydney on 31 October 1916 aboard HMAT Argyllshire (A8). Following further training in England, he proceeded to France where he joined the 15th Battalion on 8 May 1917. He was wounded in action during an attack on Accroche Wood, near Daours, France on 4 July 1918 and evacuated to England for medical treatment. He was subsequently returned to Australia, arriving on 8 February 1919. 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.