Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 22076 Gunner Clifford Albert Henry, 23rd Howitzer Brigade who was a 21 year old mechanic from Natte Yallock, Victoria, when he enlisted and embarked for overseas on 20 May 1916 with the 10th Battery from Melbourne aboard HMAT Medic. He saw active service in France and Belgium with the 3rd Division Artillery Details, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column and 3rd Field Artillery Brigade. On 16 December 1917 he died of wounds in the 7th General Hospital, St Omer, France, and was buried in the Souvenir St Omer Cemetery, St Omer which is located between Calais and Lille. 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 1930's, 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.