Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of two soldiers one of whom is identified as P Gilmour (position unknown). This is possibly 6268 Private (Pte) Patrick Gilmore, 5th Battalion. A clerk from Castlemaine, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Gilmore embarked with the 20th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 11 September 1916. Later transferring to the 21st Battalion he was wounded in action and evacuated to England. Due to the severity of his wound he returned to Australia on 12 December 1918 and was medically discharged. 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.