Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2172 Private (Pte) Thomas Evan Farr, 57th Battalion. A postal assistant from Flinders, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Farr embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Orsova on 1 August 1916. Later transferring to the 59th Battalion, he was wounded in action. Following his recovery he rejoined his unit and was killed in action on 24 April 1918 and was buried near where he fell. Following the Armistice his remains were exhumed and re-interred in the Adelaide British Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux 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.