Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 6250 Private (Pte) Lloyd Wyndham Edwards holding a baby kangaroo. A draper from Wentworth, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Edwards had previously embarked for overseas service with the service number 1344 with the 2nd Reinforcements, 8th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Clan McGillivray on 2 February 1915 but had developed kidney problems while serving at Gallipoli and had returned to Australia on 17 October 1915 and had been medically discharged. Following his recovery he re-enlisted and re-embarked for overseas service with the 20th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 11 September 1916. On different occasions he suffered from influenza, rheumatism and trench fever and was evacuated to hospital but returned to duty each time. On 20 September 1917, aged 23, he was killed in action and was buried near where he fell. Following the Armistice his remains could not be recovered and, having no known grave, he 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 a 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.