Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 2636 Private (Pte) James Francis Flanagan, 29th Battalion. A farmer from Teesdale, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Flanagan embarked with the 5th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Anchises on 14 March 1916. Later wounded in action, he was evacuated to England. Following his recovery he transferred to the 67th Battalion and promoted to Lance Corporal. Subsequently transferring to the Anzac Provost Corps he became ill with pneumonia and, on 30 October 1918 aged 20, he died as a result of his illness and was buried in the Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, 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. See also DA14557.