Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 1821 Private (Pte) Fred Allen Chisnall, 46th Battalion. Originally from Cheshire, England, Pte Chisnall was a clerk from Collingwood prior to enlistment and embarked with the 2nd Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 4 April 1916. Later posted as missing in action it was later determined that he had been killed in action on 11 April 1917, aged 21. Having no known grave he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. His brother, Francis George Chisnall, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was killed in action on 27 July 1916. 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 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.