Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 5457 Private (Pte) George Tod, 5th Battalion. A dairyman from Collingwood, Victoria prior to enlistment and originally from Bury, England, Pte Tod embarked with the18th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ayrshire on 3 July 1916. Later transferring to the 59th Battalion, he was killed in action on 11 May 1917 and was buried in the Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, 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. See also DA15395.