Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of a group of soldiers including 2987 Private (Pte) Harold Leslie Rosser, 29th Battalion (position unknown). A labourer from Geelong, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Rosser embarked with the 6th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 4 April 1916. Whilst serving in France he was wounded in action and evacuated to England. Following his recovery, he transferred to the 65th Battalion before rejoining the 29th Battalion. On 9 August 1918 he was killed in action, aged 20, and was buried in the Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France. 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.