Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6007 Private (Pte) Joseph Guy Evans, 5th Battalion. A farmer from Weldborough, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Evans embarked with the 19th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles on 28 July 1916. Later transferring to the 39th Battalion, he was reported as wounded and missing in action. A subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 7 June 1917, aged 22. 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 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.