Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of James Carroll either 2036 Private (Pte) James Carroll, 58th Battalion or 2152 Pte James Carroll, 57th Battalion. Originally from Sligo, Ireland, 2036 Pte Carroll was a miner from Cairns, Queensland prior to enlistment and originally embarked with the service number of 1452 with the 3rd Reinforcements, 15th Battalion from Brisbane on HMAT Seang Choon on 13 February 1915. Whilst in Egypt, he became ill and was evacuated back to Australia and was medically discharged. Following his re-enlistment he embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Ajana with the 3rd Reinforcements on 8 July 1916. Following the Armistice, he was granted leave to travel to Ireland where, on 20 April 1919, he died from tuberculosis and was buried in the Kilturra Old Graveyard, Ireland. 2152 Pte Carroll, a motor driver from Parkes, NSW prior to enlistment, embarked with the 4th Reinforcements, 57th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Orsova on 1 August 1916. Later evacuated from France suffering from gas poisoning, he returned to Australia on 1 August 1919. 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.