Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6555 Private Wilfred Ernest Rokahr, 6th Battalion from Dunolly, Victoria. A 21 year old labourer prior to enlisting on 17 May 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 21st Reinforcements from Melbourne on 2 October 1916 aboard HMAT Nestor. After being wounded in action in Belgium on 4 October 1917, he died of wounds that same day and is buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.