Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2189 Private (Pte) Arthur Henry Fox, 38th Battalion. A farm labourer from Ouyen, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Fox embarked with the 3rd Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Shropshire on 25 September 1918. Whilst serving in France, he was gassed and, still suffering from the effects, returned to Australia on 9 December 1918. 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. See also DA15846.