Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6287 Private (Pte) Norman Herwald Irons, 6th Battalion, a 26 year old clerk from Diapur, Victoria when he enlisted in the AIF on 12 May 1916. He embarked for overseas with the 20th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 11 September 1916 aboard HMAT Euripieds. While serving on the Western Front, Pte Irons was killed in action on 23 August 1918 and is buried in Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France. 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 1930's, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks.