Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1740 Private (Pte) John Joseph Pathe, 58th Battalion. A clerk from Newport, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Pathe embarked with the 2nd Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 4 April 1916. On 21 October 1917 he was killed in action aged 19, and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial. 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.