Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6311 Private Albert Hector Millington, 6th Battalion from Pimpinio, Victoria. A 26 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 20 September 1917 but recovered and returned to his unit. He arrived back in Australia on 5 February 1919. [See also images DA15894 and DA16182 for portraits of his brother Charles who enlisted on the same day and died of wounds in Belgium.] 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.