Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6312 Private Charles Millington, 6th Battalion from Pimpinio, Victoria. A 24 year old farmer prior to enlisting in the AIF on 23 May 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 20th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 11 September 1916 aboard HMAT Euripides. While serving on the Western Front, he was wounded in action on 4 October 1917 and transferred to No 17 Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium. He died of those wounds the next day, 5 October 1917 and was buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, 12 kilometres west of Ypres, Belgium. [See also image DA15984 for another portrait of Charles and see image DA15983 for a portrait of his brother Albert Hector Millington who enlisted on the same day.] 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. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative.