Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1051 Private (Pte) Albert Ivan Millar, 38th Battalion. A labourer from Malvern, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Millar embarked with C Company from Melbourne on HMAT Runic on 20 June 1916. Later reported as missing in action at Passchendaele, a later court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 13 October 1917 and, having no known grave, he is commemorated on the Menin Gate memorial, Ypres, 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.