Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6506 Private (Pte) Percy Fabian, 14th Battalion. A baker's assistant from Footscray, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Fabian embarked with the 21st Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 2 October 1916. On 26 September 1917 he was killed in action at Polygon Wood aged 19, and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial. His brother 324 Pte William Albert Fabian was killed at Gallipoli on 16 May 1915. 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.