Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 5485 Private (Pte) Horace Charles Stephens, 6th Battalion. A labourer from Woodward via Swan Hill, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Stephens embarked with the 17th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 4 April 1916. While serving in France he was wounded in the back and spine and evacuated to a casualty clearing station. On 27 April 1917 he succumbed to his wounds and was buried in the Grevillers British Cemetery, France. 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.