Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of 6118 Private (Pte) Ivan Arthur Williams, 14th Battalion from West Geelong, Victoria. A 19 year old clerk prior to enlisting on 27 March 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 19th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 1 August 1916 aboard HMAT Miltiades (A28). Following further training in England, he joined the 14th Battalion in France on 19 January 1917. Pte Williams was killed in action near Flers, France on 29 January 1917 and is buried in the Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers. 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.