Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2190 Private (Pte) Adam Hamilton Muntz Johnston, 58th Battalion and two unidentified soldiers (positions unknown). A painter from Chillingollah, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Johnston embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Orsova on 1 August 1916. Later transferring to the 57th Battalion, he was killed in action at Bellicourt, France and was buried near where he fell. Following the Armistice his grave could not be located and he his commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. 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.