Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 5474 Private (Pte) Leslie John Hunter, 7th Battalion. A joiner from St Kilda, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Hunter embarked with the 17th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 4 April 1916. Later transferring to the 1st Pioneer Battalion, he was killed when a tunnel he was working on collapsed under heavy artillery fire and was buried in the Guards Cemetery, Lesbouefs, 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 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.