Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2233 Private (Pte) Thomas Patrick Ryan, 58th Battalion. A railway employee from Carlton, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Ryan embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Orsova on 1 August 1916. Later transferring to the 60th Battalion, he was killed in action on 19 October 1917, aged 19, and having no known grave, is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, 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.