Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2330 Private (Pte) Henry Harnell, 38th Battalion, a 40 year old labourer from Tooborac, Victoria when he enlisted and embarked for overseas with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Port Lincoln. Pte Harnell was killed in action on 7 June 1917 at Messines and his name is engraved on the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres, Belgium with others who have no known grave. 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 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.