Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Group portrait including 12411 Driver (Dvr) John Pritchard Schulz, Army Service Corps (position unknown). A draper from Nhill, Victoria prior to enlistment, Dvr Schulz embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Port Sydney on 7 September 1916. Later transferring to the 3rd Divisional Train Motor Transport Company he developed pneumonia and was evacuated to hospital. While in transit back to Australia he developed bronchitis and was admitted to the ship’s hospital. On arriving in Australia he was admitted to the Mont Park Military Hospital and on 3 December 1920 he succumbed to his illness and was buried in the Warringal Cemetery, Heidelberg, Victoria. 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.