Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 730 Private (Pte) Thomas Dart Adams, 38th Battalion. A labourer from Ravenswood, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Adams embarked with B Company from Melbourne on HMAT Runic on 20 June 1916. Later transferring to the 59th Battalion, he was killed in action on 19 June 1918, aged 26, and was buried in the Mericourt-L’Abbe Communal Cemetery Extension France. 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.