Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 5198 Private Lionel Alfred Seccombe, 7th Battalion who was a 21 year old buyer from Malvern, Victoria, when he enlisted and embarked for overseas with the 16th Reinforcements from Melbourne on 1 April 1916 aboard HMAT Suffolk. He transferred to the 59th Battalion in Egypt and embarked with them for France, arriving on 30 June 1916. On 8 September 1916, he was wounded in action and died of those wounds on 11 September 1916. Private Seccombe is buried in the Estaires Communal Cemetery, 11 kilometres west of Armentieres, 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 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. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.