Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6296 Private (Pte) Allen Knight, 6th Battalion from Quantong via Horsham, Victoria (listed on Embarkation Roll as Allan Knight). A 22 year old orchardist prior to enlisting on 28 April 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 20th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 11 September 1916 aboard HMAT Euripides (A14). Following further training in England and France, he joined the 6th Battalion on 9 February 1917. While serving on the Western Front, he was killed in action near Rainecourt, France on 23 August 1918. Pte Knight is buried in the Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France. [See also images DA16060 and DA16171.] 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.