Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6325 Private (Pte) Francis O'Dwyer, 5th Battalion. A student from Tahbilk, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte O'Dwyer embarked with the 20th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 11 September 1916. On 4 October 1917 he was killed in action in Belgium and, having no known grave, is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, 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 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..