Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4709 Private (Pte) Stephen Meddings Hill, 24th Battalion. A selector from Tullamarine, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Hill embarked with the 12 Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 4 April 1916. He was later promoted to Corporal and, on 9 October 1917, aged 24, he was killed in action and buried in the Passchendaele New British Cemetery, 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.