Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6124 Private (Pte) Charles Taylor, 6th Battalion. A farm labourer from Charlton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Taylor embarked with the 19th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles on 28 July 1916. Later transferring to the 38th Battalion he was accidently wounded but returned to duty. Subsequently posted as missing in action it was later determined that he had been killed in action on 13 October 1917. Having no known grave he 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 a 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.