Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 5678 Private (Pte) Alfred Joseph Davis, 6th Battalion. A grocer from Quambatook, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Davis embarked with the 18th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ayrshire on 3 July 1916. Later transferring to the 59th Battalion he was promoted to Lance Corporal and wounded in action. On 22 March 1917, aged 21, he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Picardie, France. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a 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.